Hezbollah has been launching rockets into Israel nearly every day since Hamas’ deadly raid into Israel last year that sparked the war in Gaza.
The US is hoping to revive diplomatic efforts to resolve both conflicts after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last week, but so far all sides appear to be digging in.
Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Israel planned more strikes on Al-Qard al-Hasan.
Hagari claimed Iran funded Hezbollah by sending cash and gold to the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
Hagari also said that Israeli intelligence had discovered a bunker belonging to former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah that is now being used as a vault under a hospital in southern Beirut. He said it held millions of dollars of gold and cash.
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A member of Lebanon’s parliament who is the director of the hospital, Fadi Alameh, denied the claim, and said the hospital had underground operation rooms. Alameh said the hospital was being evacuated in anticipation of strikes.
Hagari said Israeli strikes in Beirut in early October and in Syria on Monday had also killed people responsible for transferring money between Iran and Hezbollah. Syrian state media said an Israeli airstrike hit a car in the capital of Damascus, killing two people and wounding three.
Israeli airstrikes killed 17 people in Lebanon on Monday, including four first responders, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. The Israeli military said Hezbollah had fired 170 projectiles into Israel on Monday.
US envoy Amos Hochstein, who has spent much of the past year trying to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, was back in Lebanon on Monday for talks with senior officials.
He said US Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, was “no longer enough” to ensure peace and a new mechanism was needed to enforce it.
The resolution called for Hezbollah to withdraw from the border with Israel and for UN peacekeepers and the Lebanese army to control southern Lebanon, without any Hezbollah or Israeli presence.
Israel says the resolution was never implemented and that Hezbollah built up extensive military infrastructure to the border. Lebanon has long accused Israel of violating its airspace and failing to abide by other provisions of the resolution.
