By Zvi Smith
Israel has dismantled an underground tunnel network in the Qantara area of southern Lebanon over the past several weeks, the Israeli military said Tuesday.
Built by militant group Hezbollah with the assistance of Iran, the Israeli military said, the network consisted of two tunnels, approximately 2 kilometers in length, and was about 10 kilometers from Israel's northern border. It is part of a broader network that Israel partially dismantled in the Maroun el-Ras and Mays al-Jabal areas during the last round of fighting with Hezbollah at the end of 2024, the military said.
The Israeli military warned residents not to return to the town a week ago and has exchanged fire with Hezbollah since then amid a cease-fire that was extended with Lebanon. Hezbollah most recently claimed to have struck Israeli tanks with explosive-laden drones on Monday and Tuesday. Israel reportedly shelled the town on Friday following Hezbollah's drone attacks on its troops over the previous days.
The tunnels were primarily for housing, with ten sleeping quarters found alongside a large cache of weapons, the military said. Shafts were also discovered connecting the tunnels to surface positions with rocket launchers facing Israeli territory.
The tunnel networks were built over the course of about a decade, at depths of dozens of meters as part of a plan to invade northern Israel and to kill and kidnap Israeli soldiers and civilians, the military said.
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