The Israeli army said on Monday its forces were pummelling Hezbollah’s financial arm, hitting more than two dozen targets including a bunker with tens of millions of dollars in cash and gold.
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Also on Monday, a child and three adults were killed and 24 others were wounded in an Israeli strike near the Lebanese capital Beirut’s main government hospital, the national health ministry said in a statement.
The strikes since Sunday night mark an expansion of Israel’s campaign against the Iran-backed group after a year of cross-border exchanges that escalated in late September into a full-blown war.
Israeli forces are now seeking to degrade the Shiite Muslim movement’s ability to fund its operations
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“The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of precise strikes on these Hezbollah financial strongholds,” military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing.
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