Journalists take a tour inside Sahel General Hospital, in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.Photo by Hassan Ammar/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hezbollah stashes US$500 million in cash and gold in bunker under Beirut hospital, IDF says

A significant portion of Hezbollah’s budget is funded by Iran, with monies funnelled through Syria and then into Lebanon

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(Oct. 22, 2024 / JNS) — One of the late Hamas chief Hassan Nasrallah’s bunkers, built under Sahel General Hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut, holds, according to estimates, at least half a billion dollars in U.S. currency and gold, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Monday evening.

A drone targets house of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s government said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house Saturday, with no casualties, as fighting with Hezbollah and Hamas showed no pause after the killing of the Hamas mastermind of last year’s October 7 attack.Adam Schreck And Samy Magdy, 19 Oct 2024Conrad Black: Israel, and the Jewish people, will prevailOn the evening of Oct. 15, I had the honour of giving a brief opening rumination when the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation very appropriately honoured the editor of this newspaper, my friend Rob Roberts, for this newspaper’s prodigious efforts to present a balanced picture of the tragic and tumultuous events in the Middle East over the last year. No one was there to hear me, and I faithfully confined myself to my brief allotted time, but did attempt to convey the qualified but comparative optimism I feel about how the current hostilities will end. It is easy for Christian Anglo-Saxons to forget how solitary and outnumbered our Jewish friends feel in these troubled times. The State of Israel was founded out of the old League of Nations Palestine mandate in 1948 to provide a homeland for the Jewish people, whose entire worldwide population had been reduced by more than a third, six million souls (along with millions of non-Jews), in the death camps of the Nazi Holocaust, which had just been ended by the…Conrad Black, 19 Oct 2024