NEW YORK (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Lebanon’s Hezbollah of storing weapons near a fuel company in a residential domain in Beirut, but the Iran-backed motion denied it.
Speaking in a video at the United Nations General Assembly, pre-recorded due to the coronavirus pandemic, Netanyahu warned that the deposit in the Jnah community “is the position where the next explosion could take its place. “
Lebanon led to breaking point through a currency crisis and a large explosion in August in Beirut harbor that killed some 200 people. Authorities said highly explosive ammonium nitrate exploded after being stored in a deficient garage for years. Hezbollah has denied any involvement.
“I tell the other people of Jnah . You have to protest against that. Because if this explodes, it’s another tragedy,” Netanyahu said. ” Iran and Hezbollah intentionally put you and your families at risk. . . . Tell them to demuel on those deposits. “
A photo posted through Netanyahu, his speech purporting to show the front of a missile factory was taken on the floor in Beirut, suggesting that an Israeli intelligence asset provided it.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday denied the lifestyle of missile sites and accused Netanyahu of galvanizing The Lebanese opposed to the Shia movement.
Shortly after Netanyahu’s speech, Hezbollah media led a giant hound organization to what the site said, on a busy residential street in Jnah. In the building, described by Hezbollah as a factory, there were machines used to cut steel and some fuel cylinders.
“There is no indication of what Netanyahu said in this factory. It’s a personal factory that makes steel parts, with laser cutting machines and the like, that’s all,” said Mohammad Rammal, who said he ran the plant. are lies, what else can I say?”
Hezbollah and heavily armed Israel fought month by month in 2006.
Speaking later Tuesday before the General Assembly, Iranian diplomat Mohammad Reza Sahraei denied Netanyahu’s “unfounded and unfounded accusations. “
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had denounced the site and others “on several occasions, either to the United Nations and other diplomatic networks, as well as through various media channels. “He suggested the Lebanese government intervene.
(Information through Michelle Nichols and Jeffrey Heller; additional information through Alaa Kanaan, Raya Jalabi and Ellen Francis in Beirut; edited through Bernadette Baum and Howard Goller)
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