The Times of Israel reports that IDF troops raided an underground 'airbase' dozens of meters below a village near the border, finding a Hezbollah cache of 50 Iranian-made explosive UAVs that would have been fired into Israel from secret hillside shafts.
The IDF has captured a Hezbollah drone factory and launch site hidden inside a mountain in southern Lebanon, according to a report Sunday evening by the Times of Israel. Troops raided an underground facility — described as an 'airbase' — dozens of meters beneath a village near the border. Inside, they found 50 Iranian-made explosive UAVs, which the military said were intended to be fired into Israel from concealed shafts on the hillside.
This is the latest in a series of IDF disclosures of Hezbollah's underground infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Over the past few weeks, The Zioneer has reported on similar discoveries: on June 21, the IDF revealed a tunnel complex in Majdal Zoun containing Iranian-made UAVs (BACKGROUND), and on June 22, the military released footage from a tunnel seven kilometers inside Lebanon. The operation described by the Times of Israel appears to be part of the same ongoing campaign to expose and dismantle Hezbollah's subterranean attack capabilities near the border.
The report is based on the Times of Israel's account, which cites the IDF. No independent confirmation has been published yet, and the exact location and date of the raid remain unspecified in the linked article.
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