Military correspondent Noam Amir said the underground missile and anti-tank infrastructure Iran built over a decade between Tibnit and Hormuz must be demolished before northern residents can safely return, citing past defense officials who dismissed the sites as 'horse stables.'
The assessment was published Sunday evening by Noam Amir, a military correspondent for Channel 14. In his statement, Amir said that the area between Tibnit and Hormuz — inside Lebanon, close to the Israeli border — has been developed over a decade into a vast subterranean zone packed with anti-tank guided missiles and other weaponry. He attributed earlier dismissals of the sites as simple 'horse stables' to unnamed defense ministers and IDF chiefs of staff. Amir concluded that failing to destroy that infrastructure before any withdrawal would prevent the return of evacuated northern Israeli civilians, potentially into next summer. The report comes as the IDF continues limited ground operations in southern Lebanon and as the Home Front Command maintains tighter shelter restrictions on communities within 9 km (5.6 miles) of the border. No official IDF or government reaction to Amir's remarks has been published as of this dispatch.
2 developments
- StrongIranian state media calls on foreign ministry to close Strait of Hormuz over Israel's Lebanon presence
- DevelopingIDF reserve lieutenant colonel warns Iran defends its own underground HQ in Lebanon, not Hezbollah
- DevelopingReport: Iran building new underground missile city with six granite-buried entrances
- StrongIran-aligned journalist warns Beirut's southern suburbs facing new, harsher equation with northern Israel
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