According to The Zioneer, 1,100 tons of explosives were used to destroy a tunnel on the Ali Taher ridge in southern Lebanon. No further details on the timing or the specific target have been released.
Reports received by The Zioneer indicate that 1,100 tons of explosives were used to destroy the Hezbollah tunnel network on the Ali Taher ridge in southern Lebanon. The figure, which has not been officially confirmed by the IDF, would be significantly larger than the 700 tons used in a previous demolition on the same ridge in July 2026, as covered by The Zioneer.
The development follows a series of announcements Thursday evening. At 21:11 Jerusalem, the IDF confirmed it had detonated the underground complex. Over the following minutes, the military released details of a 2-kilometer network containing Iranian-made rockets, missiles, drones, and a Hezbollah Badr unit command center built over two decades with Iranian funding. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a joint statement declaring the completion of the organization of the security zone in southern Lebanon, with the IDF remaining in the zone to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding. Military correspondent Nitzan Shapira later reported that the tunnels contained numerous Iranian-made missiles and drones spanning kilometers.
The Ali Taher ridge has been a focal point of IDF operations against Hezbollah underground infrastructure since the ceasefire. In July 2026, the IDF destroyed a separate tunnel network extending from beneath Beaufort Ridge toward Nabatieh using 700 tons of explosives, as The Zioneer reported at the time. That earlier demolition was also linked to Hezbollah's cross-border attack plans.
The source of the 1,100-ton figure and the exact timing of the demolition remain unconfirmed. The IDF has not issued official comment on the reported explosive quantity. It is also unclear whether the figure refers to the same demolition described in the IDF's Thursday evening announcement or to a separate operation.
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