Hezbollah footage shows ‘underground rocket launch sites’

Published August 17, 2024
This image taken from a video released by the Hezbollah military media press office on August 16 shows what the footage describes as some of the military capabilities of the group. — AFP
This image taken from a video released by the Hezbollah military media press office on August 16 shows what the footage describes as some of the military capabilities of the group. — AFP

BEIRUT: Lebanese group Hezbollah published footage on Friday that appeared to show its fighters driving trucks with rocket launchers through a maze of tunnels to an apparent underground launch site.

The footage, four minutes and 35 seconds long, is the latest in a series of videos by the group showing its purported military capabilities.

The newest video depicts fighters riding motorcycles, working on laptops and driving around a dozen trucks through the rocky tunnels. This agency was unable to independently confirm when or where it was filmed.

At the end of the video, two large metal doors open to reveal a wooded area and sky, indicating the passages are underground. One of the trucks tilts its bed back to point its cargo of rockets towards the opening.

The video identified the facility as being named “Imad 4”, an apparent reference to Imad Mughniyeh, a shadowy Hezbollah commander killed in 2008.

Posters of Mughniyeh were shown on the tunnel walls in the footage, alongside others that showed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s slain commander, Qasem Soleimani.

Shortly after Hezbollah published its video, the Iranian embassy in Beirut said Iran had its own underground missile stations that could strike Israel.

Published in Dawn, August 17th, 2024

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