FILE PHOTO: A man holds a Hezbollah flag at Meis al-Jabal village in south Lebanon, December 9, 2018. REUTERS/Aziz Taher/File Photo The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) destroyed Hezbollah’s “flagship” tunnel May 30 that was almost a mile in length.
According to the Times of Israel, the tunnel spanned 3,280 feet, 250 of which went into Israeli territory; the IDF believes that Hezbollah was going to use the tunnel to attack Israelis.
“This tunnel was the Hezbollah terror group’s flagship tunnel, in which Hezbollah invested a lot of resources and efforts, in which infrastructure was installed to allow terrorists to remain inside it for an extended period and an efficient excavation capability, as well as mobility for the terrorist operatives,” the IDF said in a statement.
The IDF filled the tunnel with concrete to neutralize the threat.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the “flagship” tunnel was the last of the six tunnels that the IDF found in Operation Northern Shield, which was launched in December to weed out Hezbollah’s attack tunnels. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said on April 25 that at least three of Hezbollah’s tunnels that the IDF discovered are in violation of Resolution 1701, the ceasefire agreement that ended the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.
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