Report from - Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center
As the Lebanese
people struggle to recover from the catastrophic deaths and destruction wrought
by the Beirut explosion, more questions than answers continue to arise. The
official story, that in 2013, Lebanese port officials impounded a Moldovan
flagged ship bound for Mozambique, laden with explosive chemicals, does not
address other facts which have emerged and must be investigated:
1. Sections of the Beirut port are under
the control of the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Israeli officials have
long complained that the Beirut port, “the Hezbollah Port” was being utilized
by the terrorists to smuggle contraband and weapons into Lebanon. As UN
Ambassador Danny Danon recently stated: “Israel discovered that Iran and its
Quds Force have been exploiting civilian maritime channels, and specifically
the Port of Beirut.”
2. Hezbollah has a long history of
illegally acquiring and stockpiling ammonium nitrate in civilian areas. In
2015, Britain’s M15 and Metro Police carried out a raid on a secret Hezbollah
warehouse in London that contained 3 tons of ammonium nitrate. The British
government shamefully covered-up the raid in order not to damage relations with
Iran shortly after signing the dangerous Nuclear Deal. It is believed Hezbollah
was planning on using the chemicals for an attack in the UK. Click here
3. The same year, police in Cyprus
discovered a Hezbollah warehouse storing 8.3 tons of ammonium nitrate. A
Hezbollah operative was arrested and charged with planning a terror attack. “A
state prosecutor said Lebanese-Canadian Hussein Bassam Abdallah admitted that
Hezbollah aimed to mount terrorist attacks against Israeli interests in Cyprus
using the ammonium nitrate that he had been ordered to guard at the Larnaca
home of another official of the Iranian-backed group.” Click here
4. Israeli intelligence gave German
police information, earlier this year, of the location of a Hezbollah stockpile
of ammonium nitrate in southern Germany. The fact that the Iranian terror group
was warehousing the explosives on German soil helped to push Berlin to outlaw
all wings of the Hezbollah organization.
“Mossad reportedly gave Germany information about warehouses in the
south of the country where Hezbollah stashed hundreds of kilograms of ammonium
nitrate, a material used to make explosives.” Click here
5. Hezbollah has a long history and
deliberate strategy of stockpiling rockets, weapons and explosives in civilian
areas. Hezbollah intentionally utilizes civilian neighborhoods including the
basements of schools, mosques, residential buildings and hospitals as missile
depots. The terrorists understand that the Israeli air force would be hindered
in responding to rockets launched from civilian centers during the next war
with Lebanon. And if Israel does attack the launchers and kills civilians,
Hezbollah is counting on the UN, the Europeans and the ICC to immediately
accuse Israel of war crimes. Hezbollah calls it this “Human Shield” program. Click here
6. In 2016, Hezbollah’s chief terrorist
Hassan Nasrallah had threatened to fire rockets at an ammonia storage facility
in Haifa. He vowed that the explosion would be like a nuclear bomb striking
Israel. He repeated this threat on several occasions causing Israeli officials
to remove the storage tanks. “Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened in
the past to destroy Israel by causing a massive explosion in the port of Haifa
using ammonia tanks that he said would be like a “nuclear” explosion. In addition
Hezbollah allegedly sought to acquire ammonium nitrate via Syria since 2009 and
tried to infiltrate the agriculture ministry in Lebanon to do so, according to
leaked diplomatic cables.” Click here
7. On Valentine’s Day in 2005, a team of
Hezbollah terrorists murdered then Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri with a
powerful bomb in Beirut. 21 people were killed in the massive explosion. Hariri
was a strong opponent of the Hezbollah group and the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad that was
attempting to control Lebanon. Four Hezbollah assassins are being tried in
absentia by a UN court for the murder. Ironically, after 15 years of stalling,
the UN’s Special Tribunal for Lebanon, hearing the Hariri case will deliver its
decision on Friday. It’s believed the Special Tribunal will declare Hezbollah
as responsible for the bombing attack. Click here
Hezbollah’s long
involvement in attempting to procure and stockpile ammonium nitrate perpetuates
the growing suspicions that the Iranian terrorist organization, which rules
Lebanon, was directly involved in the warehousing of the chemicals at the
Beirut port. When the Lebanese population will finish dealing with the
devastation and mourning its dead and wounded the finger-pointing at Hezbollah’s
role in the tragedy will begin in earnest. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon
whose verdict in the Hariri assassination trial will further emphasize
Hezbollah’s guilt. Hezbollah and its Iranian masters, the key source of Middle
East instability, must be driven out of Lebanon.
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