On Friday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah dismissed allegations that his organization had any weapons at the Beirut port, and called for the Lebanese army to head the investigation into Tuesday's disaster.
Lebanese political party and militant group Hezbollah may have sought to use the stockpile of ammonium nitrate which destroyed much of the area surrounding the port of Beirut for a new war against Tel Aviv, Israel's Channel 13 has suggested in an assessment, citing no sources.
The report, released after Hassan Nasrallah made his first remarks in the wake of the 4 August explosion on Friday, suggested that “the material that exploded in the port is not new to Nasrallah and Hezbollah,” and pointed to the militant group's previous alleged stockpiling of the substance in the UK, Germany, Cyprus, and other countries, as per allegations made by Mossad.
The TV channel recalled that Nasrallah had threatened to fire rockets at an ammonia storage tank in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa in 2016 in the event of Israeli aggression. It also recalled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the UN General Assembly in 2018, in which he accused the militia group of storing weapons in civilian areas in Beirut, and warned the militia that “israel knows what you're doing” and “will not let you get away with it”.
In his speech Friday, Nasrallah categorically denied that the group had any weapons at the port, and promised that any objective…
