Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz announced Sunday night that the IDF demolished a large Hezbollah underground facility in the southern Lebanon village of Majdal Zoun. The 200-meter tunnel, dug over 25 meters deep, was used by Hezbollah to assemble, store, and launch Iranian-made drones, according to the military. Israel updated the U.S. and the American representative to Lebanon ahead of the operation.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Sunday evening that the IDF had demolished a large Hezbollah underground facility in the southern Lebanon village of Majdal Zoun. The tunnel, approximately 200 meters long and reaching depths of over 25 meters, was used by Hezbollah to assemble, store, and launch Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles, the military said.
This operation follows a series of IDF disclosures of Hezbollah's subterranean infrastructure in Majdal Zoun. As The Zioneer previously reported in a bulletin moments before this announcement, the IDF destroyed a 200-meter Hezbollah tunnel in the same village, and Israel notified the U.S. in advance. An earlier article published on June 21 detailed a vast underground complex containing hundreds of drones and missiles beneath the village. The tunnel destroyed Sunday is the same facility that the IDF had previously uncovered and prepared for demolition, with the demolition now carried out under the joint authorization of the prime minister and defense minister.
Israel informed the United States and the American envoy to Lebanon ahead of the demolition, according to the statement by Netanyahu and Katz. The disclosure underscores the ongoing Israeli campaign to neutralize Hezbollah's cross-border attack infrastructure, which Israel says is built with Iranian backing and aimed at Israeli communities.
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