The Israeli navy on Sunday mentioned it “dismantled” a number of underground tunnels utilized by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, together with the one which was allegedly positioned beneath a cemetery.
The kilometre-long tunnel housed command and management rooms, sleeping quarters and weapon caches. In a submit on X, the Israeli Protection Forces (IDF) shared a video that confirmed dozens of weapons and different navy gear saved within the tunnel.
“Hezbollah does not worth human life — lifeless or alive,” the IDF mentioned.
⭕️ Operational replace from Lebanon:
A number of underground terrorist tunnels have been dismantled by our troops, together with a tunnel that was strategically positioned beneath a cemetery.
Hezbollah does not worth human life—lifeless or alive. pic.twitter.com/77Ry4bQk0V
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) November 10, 2024
The tunnel was reportedly sealed by pumping 4,500 cubic meters of concrete into it.
Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have been preventing throughout the Lebanese border because the warfare in Gaza erupted after Hamas attacked Israeli cities on October 7 final 12 months.
Since launching a cross-border floor assault into Lebanon in September, the Israeli navy says it has discovered a number of tunnel shafts, together with one it mentioned was about 25 metres lengthy and crossed into Israel.
Final month, the IDF launched a video of a tunnel allegedly utilized by Hezbollah members beneath a Lebanese civilian home and mentioned it was “nothing like” the one constructed by Hamas members in Gaza.
Within the video, an Israeli troop was seen exhibiting a “hundred-metre” tunnel in south Lebanon with iron doorways, “functioning” rooms, AK-47 rifles, a bed room, a toilet, a storage room of turbines, water tanks and two-wheelers.
INSIDE LOOK right into a Hezbollah terrorist tunnel in southern Lebanon: pic.twitter.com/h3ZastZHxC
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) October 15, 2024
“We’re crossing the border into south Lebanon to see what Hezbollah has been doing within the villages of south Lebanon. Embedding itself beneath civilian homes making ready for an October 7-style assault on northern Israel,” the Israeli soldier was heard saying within the clip.
Radwan “terrorists might keep right here for weeks,” she mentioned whereas referring to Iran-backed Hezbollah’s elite items.
“That is nothing just like the tunnels we noticed in Gaza,” she added.
Israeli Air Strikes Kill Dozens In Lebanon, Gaza
The Israeli navy on Sunday performed air strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens of individuals. Rescuers within the war-torn Gaza Strip mentioned 13 youngsters had been amongst 30 individuals killed by Israeli strikes within the territory’s north.
The warfare in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 assault on southern Israel which resulted in over 1,200 deaths. Israel’s retaliatory marketing campaign has since then killed greater than 43,000 individuals in Gaza.
In Lebanon, the officers mentioned at the least 41 individuals had been killed in Israeli strikes throughout the nation, together with 23 in a raid north of the capital Beirut.
Over 3,100 individuals have been killed in Lebanon because the cross-border exchanges started, most of them since Israel intensified its marketing campaign in opposition to the Iran-backed group on September 23.
Israel additionally performed a strike on an condo belonging to Hezbollah in Syria’s capital Damascus and killed 9 individuals, together with a Hezbollah commander.