The IDF released footage Friday showing the elimination of a terrorist in a tunnel shaft at the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, along with images of the underground complex. The documentation underscores military operations to dismantle Hezbollah's subterranean infrastructure in the strategic area.
The IDF published footage Friday showing the elimination of a terrorist in a tunnel shaft at the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, along with images of the underground complex. The release is the latest in a chain of documentation from the operation against the ridge's tunnel network — a story The Zioneer reported on Thursday at 22:03 Jerusalem. The filmed elimination occurred earlier; the military did not identify the terrorist or disclose the precise circumstances.
The reports published Thursday at 22:03 Jerusalem moved in stages. The Zioneer first reported the destruction of the network — more than two kilometers of tunnels built over two decades with Iranian funding, housing the Badr unit's central command complex along with large weapons and munitions stores. An Israeli security source then told Israel Hayom that dozens of operatives' bodies had been found in the tunnels, and the IDF separately released footage documenting the complex's destruction. The military subsequently confirmed the outcome: nearly 50 Hezbollah operatives were killed after refusing an offer to surrender; 1,100 tons of explosives were used to demolish the complex; and forces withdrew from the ridge while maintaining remote fire control and surveillance. The Zioneer then released IDF body-camera footage from inside the tunnels. Friday's shaft-elimination video extends that record.
The Ali al-Taher ridge, in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh District, has long served as a Hezbollah command complex built with IRGC support. As The Zioneer reported Thursday at 21:53 Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said forces were "handling the Ali al-Taher ridge," and security officials assessed that neutralizing the tunnels could draw a broader response, with the alert level described as very high. The Zioneer also reported an Arab report, published Tuesday, August 11 at 15:39 Jerusalem, that the IDF had tightened a siege on Hezbollah operatives trapped in the area and cut off their water supply.
Still open: the identity of the terrorist in the footage, the timing of the filmed elimination, and its exact location within the complex were not disclosed, and it remains unclear whether the elimination is among the nearly 50 operatives the IDF said were killed after refusing to surrender.
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