Army searches building in Hadath for Hezbollah weapons

Army forces launched Tuesday a search in a building in a densely populated area of Hadath in Beirut's southern suburbs.

A Lebanese military official said the forces were looking for weapons at the request of a five-member committee supervising the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.

The building in the Sainte-Therese street had already been targeted during the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.

Israel warned on Friday that it would keep up its strikes on Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, after it struck four locations in Dahieh on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

The Lebanese army condemned the airstrikes, warning that such attacks are weakening the role of Lebanon’s armed forces that might eventually suspend cooperation with the committee monitoring the truce that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war.

It said it had tried to convince Israel not to carry out the strikes and to instead let Lebanese officials go in to search the area under the mechanism laid out in the ceasefire agreement, but that the Israeli army refused, so Lebanese soldiers moved away from the locations after they were sent.