IDF Destroys Hezbollah Warehouse Full of Advanced Weapons in Beirut
The Israelis have just destroyed a weapons warehouse belonging to Hezbollah, one full of advanced missiles, in the middle of southern Beirut. It was a risky mission for the IDF. The Israelis had learned — Mossad agents are all over Beirut — of a Hezbollah weapons warehouse, full of advanced missiles, located smack in the middle of a residential area in the Haniyeh neighborhood, a Hezbollah stronghold. They knew it would be a dicey undertaking given the building’s location. If they bombed it, given its location, there was the possibility of civilians being killed or wounded. And that would create still another furor about Israeli “genocide.” There would be the predictable denunciation from the usual suspects: at the UN General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Human Rights Council; at the EU, at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Arab League, and from such moral eminences as Emmanuel Macron, Keith Starmer, Mark Carney, and the particularly odious Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Israeli pilots would have to hit this warehouse target dead-on, with no room for the slightest error, and to destroy both the building and its contents down to the ground, without causing damage to any of the circumjacent buildings. Civilians in nearby buildings had been warned to move at least 300 meters away from the building that had been targeted. And they did.
More on the strike on the warehouse can be found here.
A source familiar with the details told The Jerusalem Post that the Trump administration was briefed before the attack occurred and “everything was coordinated.”
The Israelis got ready. They told the Americans what they were about to hit, and why. No objection was raised in Washington. The new administration fully supports Israel in its multi-front campaign against terrorist groups. Hezbollah comes in for special American fury because of its murder of 241 Marines while they were sleeping in their Beirut barracks in 1983.
The IDF struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the terror organization’s stronghold of Dahiyeh in southern Beirut, as the materials posed a significant threat to Israel, Defense Minister Israel Katz’s office confirmed on Sunday.
Israel will not allow Hezbollah to build up its capabilities and pose any threat anywhere in Lebanon,” the ministry said. “The Lebanese government bears direct responsibility for preventing these threats.”
The warehouse housed the most advanced missiles that any jihadist terror group now possesses; apparently they had been examined by Israeli agents, and when the information was conveyed to the IDF at their headquarters in Kirya, were deemed so dangerous that Israel was prepared to take the risk of possibly hitting civilians and earning still more opprobrium from the so-called “international community.”
It [the Ministry of Defense] also said Israel will insist on achieving its war objective of safely returning the residents of the North to their homes….
As long as Hezbollah insists on trying to violate its commitment, under the terms of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, to remove all of its troops from Lebanon south of the Litani River, and thus continues to pose a threat to the 60,000 Israelis who in the early days of the war evacuated their homes in the Galilee after Hezbollah started to rain down thousands of missiles and rockets on the area, those Israelis will not return to their homes. The IDF will continue to strike at Hezbollah targets. Only when its intermittent rocket attacks on northern Israel stop completely, and the 60,000 Israelis still displaced from their homes feel safe enough to return to them, will the IDF’s campaign against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon finally end. But that campaign will not end in southern Beirut, where Hezbollah keeps trying to smuggle in arms from Iran.
The attack followed an “urgent and important warning to residents of southern suburbs of Beirut,” issued by IDF Arabic Spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee earlier.
Adraee added that those residing in a certain building located in the Dahiyeh neighborhood, as well as adjacent buildings, needed to evacuate and move at least 300 meters away for their own safety.
Civilians in the building where the missiles were being stored, and in circumjacent buildings, were given warnings, and sufficient time, to leave — and to move at least 300 meters away. As a consequence, there appear to have been no casualties after this IDF attack on the warehouse. Given its location, this was a spectacular achievement.
The building is part of Hezbollah’s terrorist infrastructure, the military said.
Saudi news outlet Al Hadath said the building was a warehouse, not a residence….
The Saudi claim supports the Israelis: the building was a warehouse — for weapons — and not a residence, as Hezbollah has of course been furiously claiming. Israelis, whose agents on the ground not only located the warehouse, but apparently were able to examine the weapons inside, reported on them to the IDF. The information they provided was more than enough for the IDF to conclude that these weapons were of such superior quality as to pose a real danger to the Jewish state, and therefore the risk had to be run of attacking — destroying — them. Then, with the full backing of the Americans who had been warned of the attack in advance and did not object, Israel will simply power through any attacks in diplomatic fora by the usual suspects, beginning with the kangaroo court at the UN, with Israel perennially in the dock.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called on the United States and France, as guarantors of the ceasefire agreement struck in November, to compel Israel to stop its attacks.
Israel’s continued actions in undermining stability will exacerbate tensions and place the region at real risk, threatening its security and stability,” he said in a statement.
The Lebanese president would be wise to keep quiet. He knows that the only force capable of weakening Hezbollah so that it loses its grip on Lebanon is not the Lebanese National Army, but the IDF. Hitting Hezbollah weapons depots does not “undermine” stability in Lebanon, but creates the conditions for stability to be achieved. Lebanon is safer for the Lebanese because of the IDF’s attacks on Hezbollah outposts and weapons warehouses. Aoun has always been wary of Hezbollah, and he knows that every IDF attack on Hezbollah weakens the group and strengthens the position of those many Lebanese who, like Aoun himself, want the country rid of the Shi’a terrorist group. While President Aoun obviously cannot publicly recognize that truth, he might, in all decency, simply remain silent, and let the IDF do what it must to keep Hezbollah from ever again threatening the Jewish state.
Israel: ‘National emergency’ as fires spread after Hamas told Muslims to ‘burn whatever you can’
This has been a threat for years.
‘Unleash Hell’: New Al Qaeda magazine describes in detail how to start huge forest fires across the U.S., with instructions on how to make ’ember bombs’
Terrorism suspected in massive fires sweeping Israel, security source says,”
Media Line, April 30, 2025:
Terrorism is suspected in the wave of massive fires that have triggered a national emergency across parts of Israel, according to an unnamed Israeli security source speaking to The Media Line. The fires erupted on Tuesday, as the country marked Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism and prepared to transition into celebrations for its 77th Independence Day.
The source confirmed that several arrests have been made in connection with the suspected arson attacks, but declined to provide further details due to the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation.
The fires, intensified by strong winds and dry conditions, have led to the evacuation of numerous communities. Emergency services are battling to contain the blazes, which have already caused widespread property damage and forced road closures. No fatalities have been reported so far, but officials have warned that the situation remains dangerous and unpredictable.
“This is being treated as a national emergency,” the source said, pointing to evidence that suggests the fires were set deliberately and in a coordinated manner. The timing—on a day of national mourning followed immediately by celebrations of statehood—has raised concerns that the attacks were intended to provoke panic and undermine the national morale.
Hamas posted a message encouraging Palestinians to “burn whatever you can of groves, forests, and settler homes,” on Telegram on Wednesday.
“Youth of the West Bank, youth of Jerusalem, and those inside Israel, set their cars ablaze… Gaza awaits the revenge of the free,” the terrorist organization wrote.
Earlier, the Jenin News Network Telegram channel called on Palestinians to “burn the groves near the settlements” in a post on Telegram on Wednesday.
As the wildfires continue to burn across central Israel, the channel posted a photo of a masked person setting fire to a field as a town burns in the background, with the text “Settlers’ homes will be ashes under the feet of the revolutionaries” and the hashtag “Burn settlers’ houses.”…
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BBC contributor calls for Gazans to burn Jews ‘like Hitler did’
Gaza-based BBC contributor, who has been featured over a dozen times on the media outlet since October 7th, 2023, called for massacres of Jews in past social media posts, urging Arabs to emulate Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.
By World Israel News Staff
A Gaza-based BBC Arabic contributor called for mass violence against Jews and appeared to laud German dictator Adolf Hitler in a series of social media posts which resurfaced over the weekend.
Samer Elzaenen, 33, has appeared on BBC Arabic over a dozen times since October 7th, 2023, according to a report published Saturday by The Telegraph, reporting from the scene of major events during the war including the daring IDF raid on Hamas safehouses in Nuseirat last June which led to the rescue of four Israeli hostages.
Saturday’s report revealed that Elzaenen has publicly endorsed violence against Jews for over a decade, using his social media presence to endorse mass killings and the emulation of the Nazi genocide of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s.
In May 2011, Elzaenen vowed on Facebook that Palestinian Arabs would engage in a Nazi-like mass murder of Jews.
“My message to the Zionist Jews: We are going to take our land back, we love death for Allah’s sake the same way you love life. We shall burn you as Hitler did, but this time we won’t have a single one of you left.”
“When things go awry for us, shoot the Jews, it fixes everything,” Elzaenen wrote in July 2022 on his Facebook account.
Saturday’s report also documented Elzaenen’s use of the pro-Hamas hashtag “#We Are All Hamas You Son of a Jewess.”
From the 2010s to the 2020s, Elzaenen explicitly endorsed or lauded over 30 terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians, calling the attacks “heroic” and praising the terrorists who committed them.
For example, after a February 2023 ramming attack in which an Arab terrorist killed two small children and a man in northern Jerusalem, Elzaenen said the terror victims “will soon go to hell.”
After the invasion of Israel on October 7th, 2023, and the subsequent massacres, Elzaenen lauded the invading terrorists as “resistance fighters.”
The report also found similar comments by a second BBC Arabic contributor, Ahmed Qannan, who expressed hope that Israelis wounded in a terrorist attack on a synagogue in 2023 would succumb to their wounds.
The BBC responded to Saturday’s report by distancing itself from the two contributors, emphasizing that neither were staff members of the outlet.
“International journalists including the BBC are not allowed access into Gaza so we hear from a range of eyewitness accounts from the strip,” the BBC said in a statement.
“These are not BBC members of staff or part of the BBC’s reporting team. We were not aware of the individuals’ social media activity prior to hearing from them on air. We are absolutely clear that there is no place for anti-Semitism on our services.”
Earlier this month, The Telegraph revealed that another BBC Arabic contributor from the Gaza Strip, Ahmed Alagha, had lauded the October 7th massacres of Israelis and called Jews “devils.”
“And as we know, the ‘Israelis’ are not human beings to begin with, rather they are not even beasts. Perhaps they belong to a race for which no description can capture the extent of their lust and sadism,” Alagha wrote elsewhere.
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