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IDF publishes new footage from Hezbollah's 'underground city' beneath Beaufort Castle, shows elimination of operatives trying to escape

The Zioneer Intelligence Desk

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TL;DR

The IDF released fresh footage captured by Golani, Egoz, Yahalom, and Maglan forces inside Hezbollah's large tunnel network beneath Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon. The video documents the elimination of operatives who attempted to flee the system, according to the military.

01 · THE DISPATCH

The IDF released new video footage on Monday evening documenting recent operations inside Hezbollah's major underground tunnel complex beneath Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon. The videos — showing soldiers from the Golani Brigade, the Egoz commando unit, the Yahalom combat engineering unit, and the Maglan special forces unit — depict the clearing of what the military has called Hezbollah's 'underground city' and the killing of operatives who tried to escape from the tunnel system.

As The Zioneer reported on June 7, the IDF earlier exposed an Iran-funded multi-shaft tunnel network beneath the Beaufort ridge, built to hold hundreds of fighters, launch drones and missiles, and sustain prolonged combat — located six kilometers from the Israeli town of Metula inside a civilian area. Last week, the IDF said troops from the Egoz unit identified operatives inside a tunnel route via drone, and as the gunmen emerged, an airstrike eliminated them. The new footage appears to provide additional angles from those same operations.

The video also includes drone views of the Beaufort Castle and the tunnel entrances, as well as documented strikes on operatives attempting to flee the network. The IDF did not specify when the new footage was filmed.

02 · How it developed

4 developments

  1. Latest

    An Israeli airstrike killed several operatives as they emerged from the tunnel.

  2. New footage shows operatives firing at an IDF drone from inside the tunnel

  3. IDF releases official footage of the operation and tunnel network

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