Hezbollah arms facility likely target of Israeli raid
[Beirut Daily Star] A utility building suspected to be a weapons storage facility for Hezbollah was the probable target of an Israeli Arclight airstrike on Lebanese territory near Janta in the Bekaa Valley two months ago.
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Earth portal dated March 6, 2014 -- 10 days after the Israeli air raid -- shows fire-scorched ground and possible debris where the building once stood beside a dirt track south of Janta. An earlier image of the same location dated Sep. 2, 2012, shows a 21 meter by 11 meter building with an angled roof and what appears to be two drive-through entrances.
The building lay in a Hezbollah-controlled security zone that includes training camps, accommodation buildings, a firing range and a small urban warfare training site that featured in a Hezbollah propaganda video last year.
On the evening of Feb. 24, Israeli jets reportedly fired four missiles in two separate sorties against an unspecified target, or targets, in the Janta area near the border with Syria.
Israel has staged seven Arclight airstrikes since January 2013 against suspected consignments of advanced weaponry allegedly destined for Hezbollah. The first six raids all occurred in Syria.
Posted by: Fred 2014-04-18 |