The Israeli military destroyed another Hezbollah tunnel found in Lebanon that was being prepared for its elite forces to invade the Jewish state.
Troops with the Israel Defense Forces’ Hiram Brigade and Air Force’s Shaldag unit located the tunnel in “the heart of a civilian neighborhood” in southern Lebanon, officials said.
The entrance to the tunnel system was located inside a civilian house, with the home also serving as a weapons warehouse for Hezbollah, according to the IDF.
Inside the tunnel itself, IDF troops found a plethora of weapons and military equipment reserved for Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Forces.
Like with other large tunnels located in southern Lebanon, the IDF said the terrorists were building a stockpile in the underground system for a planned invasion of Israel.
The IDF proceeded to destroy the tunnel in a large blast that took out five buildings connected to the underground weapons depot.
Along with taking out the tunnel, the IDF also touted that its recent operations in Lebanon saw their troops destroy a hotel and other terrorist buildings harboring Hezbollah missile launchers, which had been used to attack Galilee and other northern Israeli towns in recent months.
The operation comes a week after the IDF located another tunnel in southern Lebanon being prepped for Hezbollah’s alleged “Conquer the Galilee” operation.
Inside that tunnel, IDF soldiers found helicopter missiles, mortar shells, files, ammunition, motorcycles and enough food and supplies to last for days for Hezbollah’s Radwan unit.
Israel Defense Force spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, who toured the tunnel, said the terrorists would have used the weapons and motorcycles to raid Kiryat Shmona and other northern villages in the Jewish state.
The existence of the tunnels so close to the border is notably a clear violation of the UN Security Council’s Resolution 1701, which ended the Israeli-Lebanon war in 2006 and created a buffer zone along the border where the IDF and Hezbollah were prohibited from operating in.
