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IDF Spokesperson/TPS-IL on 3 November, 2024
Weapons Warehouse Found in South Lebanon Children’s Room
Jerusalem, 3 November, 2024 (TPS) -- Israeli soldiers in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila found numerous weapons inside a children’s bedroom and other equipment around the house which served as a military warehouse, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday.
Along with dolls, troops from the army’s 769th Brigade located in the bedroom and kitchen RPGs, launchers, rockets, grenades and Kalashnikov-type weapons. Elsewhere in the house, soldiers found a significant amount of military tactical equipment, combat and observation gear, Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missiles, and intelligence documents used by Hezbollah, who had been barricaded inside the residence, the army said.
Bodycam footage released by the IDF showed children’s toys, along with crates of various weapons.
“Inside the children’s room, we found concealed weapons, explosives, ammunition and military equipment,” said Maj. Or, company commander of the 769th Brigade in a video. “Entering the house, you can see the toys here. A children’s room, storage facility, closets, toys, shoes. And behind this wall, which we had to break, a small wall made of plywood. And behind it… you can see water, bags with RPGs, boxes containing explosives.” Crates were opened to reveal RPGs and other munitions.
“Everything is new, everything is monitored, just like we have seen in other places,” he added.
Sarit Zahavi, president and founder of the Alma Research Center, told The Press Service of Israel in August that Hezbollah doctrine makes extensive use of civilian homes, where many more weapons, including ballistic missiles, are kept.
“Hezbollah stores their weapons everywhere, both between villages and within the villages themselves,” she said.
“By and large, every third house in the Shi’ite villages of south Lebanon is used in some way by Hezbollah for military purposes, be it weapons storage, the entrance of a tunnel, or a launchpad for shooting rockets at Israel,” she explained. Soldiers have even found cruise missiles inside homes ready for launch.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah continued firing rockets at northern Israel throughout the day. Sirens were sounded in the Carmel region near Haifa, the Upper and Western Galilee, the Golan, and the cities of Nahariya and Akko.
After the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Hezbollah began firing rockets and launching drones at northern Israel communities daily. More than 68,000 residents of northern Israel are displaced from their homes. Hezbollah leaders have repeatedly said they would continue the attacks to prevent Israelis from returning to their homes.
According to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the terror group is forbidden from operating in southern Lebanon.
At least 1,200 people were killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 97 remaining hostages, more than 30 have been declared dead. Hamas has also been holding captive two Israeli civilians since 2014 and 2015, and the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014.
