Troops of the 300th Baram Regional Brigade and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit demolished a Hezbollah tunnel spanning dozens of meters in the southern Lebanon village of Srebbine, the IDF says. In separate operations, Kfir Brigade forces destroyed a weapons cache containing rockets and launchers, and Kiryati Brigade reservists located dozens of additional weapons.
The IDF on Wednesday morning released additional details confirming that troops of the 300th 'Baram' Regional Brigade and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit demolished a Hezbollah tunnel dozens of meters long in the village of Srebbine in southern Lebanon. In separate operations, Kfir Brigade forces destroyed a weapons cache containing rockets and launchers, and reservists of the Kiryati Brigade located dozens of additional weapons. The announcement expands on initial reports from earlier this morning.
At 08:31 Jerusalem, the IDF first reported that forces of the 91st Division, including Brigade 300 and Yahalom, had destroyed an underground route used by Hezbollah to advance attacks in the Sarbeen area. That initial report also noted the discovery of a weapons warehouse by the Kfir Brigade and a cache of Kalashnikov rifles and anti-tank rockets by Brigade 4. The military's subsequent statements, all published at 08:31 Jerusalem, progressively added details: the tunnel was specifically used for attacks, and the caches contained launchers and rockets. The current update specifies the village of Srebbine and the involvement of the Kiryati Brigade.
The operation is part of the IDF's sustained campaign to dismantle Hezbollah's military infrastructure in southern Lebanon, including the destruction of a major tunnel complex in Majdal Zoun containing hundreds of drones and missiles (The Zioneer, Jun 21) and a 200-meter underground facility destroyed in the 'End of Verse' operation (The Zioneer, Jun 28). The IDF has reported killing over 20 Hezbollah operatives in recent weeks and continues to target the group's second line of defense, including villages like Dibbine, as The Zioneer reported on Jun 12.
The IDF has not released footage of the Srebbine tunnel demolition or the exact locations of the weapons caches. The military has not specified when the operation took place, only that the details were cleared for publication this morning.
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