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The Israeli military on Wednesday said it struck an underground storage facility in the southern suburbs of Beirut which it said contained weapons belonging to the Hezbollah militia. The army said that the strike on Dahiyeh was carried out after “numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including advancing warning to the population in the area.” It added that it had “precise intelligence” that “strategic weapons” belonging to Hezbollah had been stockpiled in the facility. Last week, human rights watchdog Amnesty International criticized evacuation warnings issued by…

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