Israel says it targets facility storing ‘precision missiles’ in Beirut
The Israeli military says the attack on the Beirut suburbs has destroyed “an infrastructure where precision missiles” were stored by Hezbollah.
It did not provide proof for its claim. No secondary explosions were reported after the Israeli attack.
“Storing missiles in this infrastructure constitutes a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon and a threat to the state of Israel and its citizens,” the military said in a statement.
Hezbollah argues that the truce with Israel – based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701 – only restricts the group’s military presence near the Israeli border, south of the Litani River, not across all of Lebanon.
Israel’s claim of targeting missile storage in Beirut ‘doesn’t fit’
Elijah Magnier, a political and military analyst, notes that there were no secondary explosions after the Israeli strike on Beirut today. He added that with the warning, Israel gave Hezbollah “ample time” to move any assets that may have been in the area.
“All that doesn’t fit, really,” Magnier told Al Jazeera.
While Israel said the purported missiles in Beirut posed a threat to its security, Magnier said the timing of the strike helps Netanyahu domestically by turning attention away from the controversies he is facing at home.
“He’s saying: ‘Look, I’m destroying missiles in Beirut that most probably were directed toward Israel, and I need to concentrate on that. Allow me to concentrate on defending you,'” Magnier said, referring to Netanyahu’s strategy.
Hezbollah MP: ‘Where are the missiles?’
Ibrahim Mousawi, a legislator in Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, dismisses the Israeli claim that the strike in Beirut targeted a facility storing precision missiles.
“Where are the missiles that they claim were stored in the targeted area?” Mousawi was quoted as saying by Lebanon’s National News Agency. “And how could anyone store missiles – and precision missiles, as they say – in residential areas?”
The parliament member added that the Israeli attack and warning that preceded it are a “crime of terrorising” the population and part of Israel’s psychological warfare against Lebanon.
Lebenese rescuers extinguish a fire at a site hit in Israeli strikes following evacuation orders in Beirut's southern suburb on April 27
CNN: "Hezbollah has not yet commented on the matter." Just peddling Israeli lies again.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-strike-israel-latam-intl/index.html
The target of the strike was a Hezbollah facility in Beirut which stored precision missiles, according to a joint statement from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz.
