Hezbollah has denied allegations made by the Israel Defense Forces that its weapons were being stored in civilian buildings targeted by Israeli strikes in the Dahiyeh area of southern Beirut on Friday. In its first official comments on the airstrikes, Hezbollah stated that the claims of weapons being present in the bombed civilian buildings are completely false.
Explosions continued to rock the Lebanese capital early Saturday morning local time, following the Israeli strikes. The Israel Defense Forces had earlier announced that they were conducting targeted strikes on weapons belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization, which they claimed were stored beneath civilian buildings. Residents in certain areas were instructed to evacuate as a precaution.
