Hezbollah is responsible for the Beirut disaster.

"Hezbollah controls security at the Beirut port, which it uses for its smuggling operations and for storing weapons. The assessment in Lebanon is that the investigation of the massive explosion at the port on Aug. 4 will be a whitewash, and that responsibility for the disaster will be laid on junior government officials."

"The leaks from the investigation so far do not touch on the claims that Hezbollah turned the port into a weapons warehouse and had actually seized the ammonium nitrate stockpiled there to create explosive devices (IEDs). In 2015, a Hezbollah warehouse storing 8.3 tons of ammonium nitrate was discovered in Cyprus, and six months later, three tons of ammonium nitrate were found in four London hideouts. “On top of the risk of accidental detonations that threaten residential neighborhoods, it was revealed that the charge used in the Burgas bus bombing in 2012 contained ammonium nitrate,” according to one report."

"Nor is it mentioned by the investigators that the massive explosion may have included a smaller blast of Hezbollah weaponry that was stored near the ammonium nitrate stash, as al-Arabiya TV reported on Aug. 4. Viewers of the videos of the port explosions claimed they saw “fireworks going off.” It can be said with relative certainty that the many tiny flashes were from low-caliber ammunition exploding."

"Hezbollah stores explosives, missiles, rockets and ammunition throughout Lebanon, especially among the civilian population, to make it difficult for Israel to destroy them. The Iranian-backed group has transformed Lebanese residents into “human shields” to protect its weapons."

"American intelligence also thinks Hezbollah controls the port. The Fox News Network broadcast on Aug. 5 that according to American intelligence officials, most of the activity in the port is well known to Hezbollah, and that in fact, the first people to arrive on site after the blast were Hezbollah operatives."

Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/hezbollah-is-responsible-for-the-beirut-disaster/

 

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