Israel has accused Hezbollah of keeping hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker under a hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut, though it said it would not strike the complex.

The Sahel hospital in Dahiyeh was evacuated shortly afterwards, and Fadi Alame, its director, told Reuters that the allegations were untrue.

Israel did not provide evidence for its claim that cash was being kept under the hospital. Instead, it published an animated graphic that purported to show a bunker under the hospital and said it had previously been used to hide the former secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.

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    This is Israel’s setup for bombing a damn hospital. Not that they’ve ever cared about needing an excuse, before.

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    Me trying to get the monarchs of Spain to finance my trip to india: El Dorado is out there, I swear.

    My great-great-great-great-grear-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-geat-great-great-grandchild:

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      Yes. Except now it is even more incredible since how the FUCK are they getting away with it! Back then fact checking was much harder and it was much easier to bullshit. Now we have access to unprecedented information and fact checkers and still the same old fucktard tactics work.

      There isn’t even a cool off period with this. There was a time not too long ago where they would spout some bullshit that would later turn out to be obvious bullshit… and they would wait several years for people to forget before doing it again. But over here they just turned the entire thing into a ritual where they expect us to fall in line and believe it even they know we know it is shit.

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    Israel did not provide evidence for its claim that cash was being kept under the hospital. Instead, it published an animated graphic that purported to show a bunker under the hospital

    Um, what? Anyone with Blender experience could do that. Man, this part of the conflict is gonna be a whole fucking thing in the history books. I wish I was more cynical so I could get over the fact that other countries don’t seem to give a shit about the blatant lies and terrorist carnage.

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    Remember when they bothered to pretend that Hamas was blowing up their own hospitals because it would obviously be a war crime to target hospitals? I remember that.

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    Another Al Shifa. Magazines next to MRI machine. Terrorists calendar.
    We know all the tricks.

    I’m scary. What will happen after the US elections?
    Full invasion? Next Gaza?

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      There is a word for it when it was deliberate done by someone to instill this… What was it again…

      Oh yeah.

      Terrorism!

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      That’s why they evacuated it, they know Israel would bomb it. They’ve targeted hospitals and abundances in Lebanon before (and Gaza as well, of course).

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    What a strange thing to announce. Everything Israel says is a lie, but even still, so what if Hezbollah does store it there? I don’t understand why anyone is supposed to care how or where Hezbollah might store cash & gold on their own lands.

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    I legit had to check whether this was The Onion. This is such an absurd thing to announce it seems like a parody of their actions.