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IDF exposes Hezbollah weapons warehouse adjacent to Lebanese school

“This endangers the lives of 300 children who attend the school,” says the Israeli military.

A Hezbollah weapons warehouse adjacent to a school in Lebanon. Source: IDF/Twitter.
A Hezbollah weapons warehouse adjacent to a school in Lebanon. Source: IDF/Twitter.

The Israel Defense Forces revealed a Hezbollah weapons warehouse on Wednesday built in close proximity to a school in Southern Lebanon.

On its official Twitter account, the Israeli military said: “Our intelligence can reveal that Hezbollah has built a weapons warehouse just 25 meters from a school in the village of Ebba, Lebanon. This endangers the lives of 300 children who attend the school. Hezbollah doesn’t want you to RT this, but these innocent children need you to.”

The IDF then tweeted the precise coordinates of the warehouse. The village of Ebba is located west of the town of Nabayiyeh in Southern Lebanon.

An animated IDF video shows a structure containing a large number of rockets and launchers in a simulated building in the village.

In recent years, the IDF has increasingly exposed Hezbollah’s activities via media and social media, as a means to deliver warnings to the Iranian-backed terror organization and to try and deter it, while also increasing pressure on it.

Such campaigns also demonstrate the extent of Israel’s intelligence coverage of the terror group’s activities.

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