At the moment Lebanon is a poor country, half-a-billion would go a long way toward keeping the lights on.
From The Times of Israel, October 21:
Amid operation against group’s finances, military spokesman calls on Lebanon and international groups to prevent use of money to fund terror
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday declassified intelligence on the Hezbollah terror group’s finance hub, including a bunker hidden underneath a hospital in south Beirut that it said contains hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold.
Israel expanded its campaign against Hezbollah on Sunday night, launching a series of strikes to degrade the Iran-backed terror group’s ability to fund its operations.
“The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of precise strikes on these Hezbollah financial strongholds,” IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing.
“One of our main targets last night was an underground vault with tens of millions of dollars in cash and gold. The money was being used to finance Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel,” he said, without specifying whether all of the money was destroyed in the strike.
Hagari then referenced a separate bunker....
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