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Choueifat Hezbollah military site: Are the Israeli accusations true?

A security source told L'Orient Today that the Lebanese Army only found sewage water pipes at the location, which belong to industrial enterprises.

People looking at a crater caused by an Israeli airstrike on Choueifat, south of Beirut, in October 2024, during the war between Hezbollah and Israel. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient Today)

BEIRUT — After the Israeli army accused Hezbollah on Wednesday of rebuilding a military site in Choueifat, a few kilometers south of Beirut, a security source told L'Orient Today on Thursday that the Lebanese Army only found sewage water pipes at the location, which belong to industrial enterprises.Contacted by L'Orient Today, a Hezbollah spokesperson, Rana Sahili, said on Thursday that "there is nothing" in the site mentioned by the Israeli army, denying the allegations of a military site being present.On Wednesday, the Arabic-speaking spokesperson of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, shared on X satellite images which he claimed showed, "how Hezbollah is trying to rebuild a production site in the southern suburbs [of Beirut] while concealing its activity from monitoring mechanisms and lying to the...
BEIRUT — After the Israeli army accused Hezbollah on Wednesday of rebuilding a military site in Choueifat, a few kilometers south of Beirut, a security source told L'Orient Today on Thursday that the Lebanese Army only found sewage water pipes at the location, which belong to industrial enterprises.Contacted by L'Orient Today, a Hezbollah spokesperson, Rana Sahili, said on Thursday that "there is nothing" in the site mentioned by the Israeli army, denying the allegations of a military site being present.On Wednesday, the Arabic-speaking spokesperson of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, shared on X satellite images which he claimed showed, "how Hezbollah is trying to rebuild a production site in the southern suburbs [of Beirut] while concealing its activity from monitoring mechanisms and lying to the...