Explosives discovered inside a tunnel in southern Lebanon were destroyed by Israeli forces, according to a report from Israel Hayom.
The IDF confirmed late Sunday that Israeli forces destroyed a cache of explosives discovered inside a tunnel in southern Lebanon, according to a report by Israel Hayom. The development follows the earlier announcement, at 12:51 Jerusalem, that the military was preparing to detonate a massive tunnel system in the area using hundreds of tons of explosives, and that the blast might trigger independent earthquake alert systems. The current report did not specify the quantity or type of munitions found, or the exact tunnel location.
At 12:51 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported that the IDF was set to detonate large tunnel shafts in southern Lebanon around 23:00, using hundreds of tons of explosives, and that local councils in the Galilee had warned residents of an unusually powerful blast. That update was the culmination of a sequence of warnings issued throughout Sunday evening: by 12:51 Jerusalem, the military had informed northern residents of an imminent explosion, clarified it was part of a controlled demolition of Hezbollah infrastructure, and stated that the blast might trigger independent earthquake-detection systems not linked to the Home Front Command. The current destruction of the explosives cache appears to be part of the same operation, with the military confirming the action after the fact.
The broader operation has been described by the IDF as the demolition of a 'massive' underground network built by Iran in southern Lebanon, as The Zioneer reported at 22:25 Jerusalem on Sunday. Unprecedented quantities of explosives are being used to collapse the tunnel systems, according to that earlier report.
It remains unclear what quantity or type of explosives were found in the tunnel, whether any other munitions or infrastructure were discovered in the same underground complex, and if the cache was linked to the larger tunnel system slated for detonation.
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