Image of the warehouse in Hadath targeted by the Israeli army on Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Credit: X account of Israeli army's Arabic-speaking spokesperson, Avichay Adraee)
The municipality of Kfar Shima, in Mount Lebanon, on Tuesday denied the presence of a Hezbollah warehouse in the locality, refuting information broadcast the previous day by the Lebanese channel Al-Jadeed which claimed that the Lebanese Army had conducted a search there.
"There is no Hezbollah warehouse in the locality for the army to enter," the municipality stated, calling on the media to "exercise diligence and caution, and to verify the information they publish, especially those likely to cause panic among citizens and which are completely unfounded."
A day after an Israeli strike, which occurred nearly an hour after an evacuation order issued by the Arabic-speaking spokesperson of the Israeli army, on a warehouse located in Hadath, in the southern suburb of Beirut, "American sources" told the channel that "the Lebanese Army was supposed to enter the warehouse located in the Hadath region, in the southern suburb, as it has done in other Hezbollah warehouses in Kfar Shima, Jadra and elsewhere," without providing further details.
The Israeli attack was unprecedented since the cease-fire, signed on Nov. 27, 2024, between Lebanon and Israel, not because it targeted an area in the suburb of the capital, which has been hit for the third time since the agreement was signed, but because it was not in response to fire from Lebanese soil. Israeli authorities claimed that the party's weapons were stored in the targeted warehouse.
While Hezbollah, through its Secretary-General Naim Qassem, reiterated that the party's disarmament, one of the terms of the agreement, only concerns the south of the Litani, Israel seems to believe that the agreement requires the dismantling of the party's arsenal across the entire territory. For now, at a time when Israel is bombing southern Lebanon almost daily, and whose army remains present in five "strategic" positions near the border it considers "strategic," Hezbollah refuses to discuss its disarmament beyond the demilitarization of the area south of the Litani in favor of the deployment of the Lebanese Army.
