Lebanese Army tried to prevent Dahieh strikes but Israel refused, official says
A Lebanese army official said that the army had attempted to convince Israel not to carry out strikes on several sites in Beirut’s southern suburbs Thursday, on the eve of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
The official said the army asked Israel to let Lebanese officials go in to search the area under the mechanism laid out in the ceasefire agreement, but that the Israeli army refused, so Lebanese soldiers moved away from the locations.
LBCI said that the Lebanese Army did inspect one of the Dahieh buildings and found no weapons despite the Israeli refusal.
The Israeli military later struck several sites in Dahieh that it said held underground facilities used by Hezbollah for drone production.
A Hezbollah official denied that there were drone production facilities at the targeted locations.
"In the (ceasefire) agreement, there is a mechanism for investigating if there is a complaint," the official said. "Israel in general, and Netanyahu in particular, wants to continue the war in the region."
Source: Associated Press
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