Israel claims discovery of fourth Hezbollah tunnel and packed it with explosives

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Israel launched an operation earlier this month to “expose” and “thwart” tunnels allegedly dug by Hezbollah [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu]
Israel launched an operation earlier this month to “expose” and “thwart” tunnels allegedly dug by Hezbollah [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu]
The Israeli military says it has uncovered another tunnel used by Hezbollah militants to infiltrate the country from Lebanon.

It’s the fourth such tunnel to be found since the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Operation Northern Shield, the goal of which is to find and destroy Hezbollah tunnels, earlier this month.

 Israeli authorities have examined the tunnel to learn more about its route, and it has since been packed with explosives ahead of its neutralization.“The route, just like the other routes [tunnels], is booby-trapped by the IDF and anyone who enters it on the Lebanese side endangers his life,” the IDF said in a tweet.

“Imagine terrorists digging an attack tunnel like this towards your home. Hacking away inch by inch underground in order to kill you and your family,” the IDF said in another tweet accompanied by a video showing the interior of the tunnel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the tunnel was discovered Sunday morning.

“Our operation to deprive Hezbollah of the tunnels is advancing according to plan and will continue until he has achieved all its objectives,” Netanyahu said in a tweet in Hebrew.

Hezbollah, which has been accused of using tunnels to infiltrate Israel since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war has not commented on the allegations.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil visited the border area in Marjayoun Sunday, expressing support for the Lebanese Army.

“Lebanon is protected by its Army and resistance,” Bassil said in a tweet. “And what is more important is that Lebanon is protected by its diversity and pluralism that defeat the unilateralism and racism of Israel.”

The Israeli army meanwhile continued excavations near the Fatima Gate, the former border crossing in Marjayoun’s Kfar Kila, with Israeli flags posted in the now militarized zone.

Israeli excavations also resumed east of Mais al-Jabal after the Israeli army last week briefly withdrew its excavators from the area. Five excavators accompanied by Israeli soldiers deployed in Mais al-Jabal as UNIFIL peacekeepers monitored the situation.

The Lebanese Army  boosted its presence in the area, erecting a metal barrier out of fear that visitors to the border would unknowingly cross into Israel.

According to National News Agency, UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said that the Israeli army had informed UNIFIL of the fourth tunnel. Tenenti was quoted as saying that the U.N. peacekeeping mission was “fully engaged with all sides to ensure stability in the area.”

UNIFIL has confirmed the existence of two tunnels in the border region since Israel launched Operation Northern Shield on Dec. 4 to find and destroy the “Hezbollah attack tunnels,” though the U.N. mission did not say who had dug them.

The Israeli tunnel-destruction operation has heightened tensions along the border, where Lebanese soldiers have visibly been on high alert and United Nations peacekeepers have been stationed.

Lebanese prime minister-designate Saad Hariri said the Lebanese army was awaiting a full report from the UN on the matter.

Earlier this month, Hezbollah’s second-in-command claimed that the Shiite militant group’s missiles are capable of striking anywhere in Israel.

Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem told Iranian Arabic-language newspaper al-Vefagh that Hezbollah was not looking to start a war with Israel but would respond to any Israeli aggression with force

The UN Security Council is scheduled to meet next Wednesday – at the request of the US – to discuss Hezbollah’s  alleged cross-border  tunnels, Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said on Thursday.

After the council convenes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  will  reportedly speak with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and “demand” that he condemn Hezbollah’s “violation of Israeli sovereignty,” according to an Israeli official.

Destruction of Lebanon

Israeli  President Reuven Rivlin told Israel Defense Forces soldiers Sunday that  Hezbollah  will drag Lebanon into war with Israel, “ultimately leading to its destruction.”

He made the statement   hours after the IDF announced it had located another Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnel as  he was touring the tunnel-busting operation along the northern border,stressing that  Israel will do ‘whatever it takes to defend itself’’.

“We are warning Hezbollah not to impose an Iranian agenda on Lebanon, or to use it to attack Israel,” he said. “The IDF is prepared and ready to respond to any scenario forced upon us.”

“Hezbollah, which presents itself as the ‘defender of Lebanon,’ will ultimately lead to its destruction,” he warned.

Agencies

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33 responses to “Israel claims discovery of fourth Hezbollah tunnel and packed it with explosives”

  1. I smell the rat! 4 tunnels were suddenly discovered , one after another in less than 2 weeks. Israel has been waging an ongoing campaign against the threat of “attack tunnels” on its borders with Lebanon for years. Physically digging up and destroying the northern tunnels marks a new stage, but hardly a new operation. So the fanfare surrounding “Operation Northern Shield” seemed to many security officials overblown. Many assume the branding and public relations have less to do with Hezbollah than with Israel’s new defense minister, who just happens also to be its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu hopes that the glamour of the military will boost his prospects in the upcoming election. But he may live to regret the decision.

    1. Perhaps it smell the rat, however in the IDF video the man in the tunnel, was named as Imad Fahs, studies Mechanical Engineering at KNT University of Technology in Iran and hails from Beirut, Lebanon.
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/40cbe2031a785c827d654bca9f84363e7637e661bd4b05ccb2de0cb799e30ae2.jpg
      According to the Israeli security officials, they identified him as a commander of the Hezbollah observation unit on the border with Israel, as well as a commander in the tunnel unit.

        1. Conquest of Abyad primitive brain by hate was started long before her trash commenting on yalibnan

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Imbécile bloké

          2. blocked is your primitive brain, infosharmuta

          3. In Palestinian’s name…. ????‍♂️ ???? ????
            https://twitter.com/AbyadHind/status/1076977083367280640

            Christmas is the year’s largest Christian feast, but who have actually written Christmas’s greatest hits, internationally? With absolute certainty it was not any christian arabs.
            Paradoxically, Irving Berlin (White Christmas), Mel Tormé (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) and other Jewish composers. A fascinating and different documentary about American immigrants coming in from the winter cold. And became some of popular music’s foremost icons. Not least this year.

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar

            You have no right to your copy-paste own opinion- as mine- on Twitter.

          5. Masturbastinian

          6. Now I’m convinced that you don’t like non-jews.

          7. you are blind if not stupid. i love diversity and all variety of people equally. i hate hate and lie and corruption

          8. Niemals, faliestinians are just selected apartheided by KGB out contextect ORABIANS. I see you are fallen in love with Abyad

          9. Hindler last words says it all; “Twitter wont do anything about this stalker” – that is how I “fallen in love with Abyad” ????

          10. I wish You Happy Christmas and Happy 2019 Year, i am glad to see You are active commentator, Thank You!

          11. Ditto

          12. Is the folowing “Masturbastinian” too?

            “The lighting of the Christmas tree each year has many meanings in Palestine… Christmas is one of the permanent Palestinian symbols, and the whole world follows Mass in Bethlehem…

            First the muslim arabs politicizing Islam, now the Palestinian arabs politicizing christianity.

            http://disq.us/p/1yduuft
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4c54ffd1b2d05469ae180cf121a695266640cea7ce8034b851cbb5ed4006efa1.jpg
            The acting Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads a Christmas midnight mass at Saint Catherine’s Church, in the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank December 25, 2018. Nasser Nasser/Pool via Reuters

            The children of Khan Al-Ahmar are happy about the lighting of this tree, as it is the symbol of the first Palestinian, Jesus, peace be upon him. We, the members of the Palestinian people, are celebrating Christmas together with everyone in the land of Palestine…’

            The same false claims about Jesus were repeated by Secretary-General of the National Initiative [and PA Parliament member] Mustafa Barghouti:

            “Jesus, who was born on this land, was a Palestinian and defeated his suffering.”
            [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 20, 2018]

            A few among the many examples of PA and Fatah leaders calling Jesus a Palestinian include:

            PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated that: “We celebrate the birth of Jesus, a Palestinian messenger of love, justice and peace.” [WAFA, Dec. 22, 2014]

          13. Here you have a prime example of the first degree https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/26fa23cdf5fb7067b1558072eee3a41adee33c44c4803b0e006d6554ce647d7d.jpg
            “Allah, same name of God for Semitic Christians of the Middle East.”…
            What about the non semitic Christians, they don’t call the God “Allah”.

          14. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Semitic Christians:
            The original 2,000 years old first Christians in Palestine 200 years before Roman Church was born.

          15. Abyad is “Lighting the Christmas tree”…. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d56639451fcfac5adb090ba9dea1536dc0f7847018b485004ed56a9187870155.jpg Source: Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 6, 2018

          16. “They need an army to arrest children ! How immoral this is .” says Bashar Saudi @basharsaudi from Amman.

            As a Jordanian Bashar Saudi should be intelligent and well informed to see the difference between https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1dac7dcbe5e7d052a7b6d9c99faee823ae87676ef803fed0e9f9a68c92249542.jpg IDF uniform https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bc1d02dd0a3f7c9708838e6b22ae3c8eb1aa6316474c76b0eb947f204a6b2f6f.jpg and Israeli border police.
            https://twitter.com/basharsaudi/status/1077442277621092352

          17. Out of context. Niemals is second Abyad

          18. I know that you Jews and arabs are the same family despite cutting each other’s throat.

          19. you are primitive semi liberal fundamentalist

    2. The only “rats” here are the ones led by the Fat Sack of Shit(tm). As to the non-Hezbollah Lebanese, looks like most of them are more like ostriches.

  2. Hind Abyad Avatar

    British delegate to the UN:
    ” We call on the Lebanese army to destroy the tunnels of #Hezbollah quickly. ”

    Lebanese Army:
    ” Sure. Will do it just after we delete this agreement we have with the resistance to protect each other’s back, oh wait, it’s engraved on every stone in our country “.

  3. This is more brutal and evil, than words can describe. ????
    https://twitter.com/BitarDeen/status/1076457712471420930

    Its about time for the Israelis to overthrow the Netanyahu rule, that feed on these barbaric and theocratic settlers – destroying the live of the arab Palestinians.

    1. out of context. Niemals is second Abyad

      1. Oh boy, are you accepting this behavior?
        That explains why you support Netanyahu.

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