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Eliminating Hezbollah’s bank: Bombing won’t be enough
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Al Qard al-Hasan, Hezbollah's bank, has been struck before and recovered. Targeting those who provide cover for it is also necessary, analyst tells JNS.
When Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel on March 2, Israel immediately targeted senior operatives, headquarters and terrorist infrastructure, as would be expected. But it also targeted a bank.
That bank, the Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association, presents itself as a civilian financial institution in Lebanon, but it’s really part of Hezbollah’s financial backbone, providing banking services for Hezbollah members, the Israel Defense Forces said the day of the attack.
By March 10, the IDF had hit 30 of its branches.
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