The Israeli army exposed an underground Hezbollah bunker close to its border with Lebanon that used to be stocked with guns and bikes for a deliberate invasion of Israel, officers stated Monday.
Israel Protection Drive spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari stated in a video excursion of the tunnel that Israeli forces positioned the subterranean terrorist command heart in southern Lebanon, with the bottom stretching throughout just about 880 yards of land — and set for use for “a bigger scale of a bloodbath than Oct. 7.”
Within, the IDF infantrymen discovered helicopter missiles, mortar shells, recordsdata, ammunition, bikes and sufficient meals and provides to remaining for days for Hezbollah’s elite Radwan troops as they allegedly ready for operation “Triumph over the Galilee.”
Israeli infantrymen lately exposed a hidden Hezbollah bunker stretching a half-mile lengthy close to the border with Lebanon. IDF
Within the bunker have been guns and ammunition being ready for Hezbollah’s elite forces to invade Israel, in line with the IDF. IDF
“They have been making plans, with those bikes right here, to go into Kiryat Shmona, to Yiftah, to villages and positions within Israel and habits a bloodbath,” Hagari stated, claiming it will had been greater than the Oct. 7 terrorist assault.
The IDF captured the underground complicated past due remaining week after a Hezbollah fighter used to be positioned hiding within the bunker.
The terrorist used to be killed by way of the Israeli Air Drive, with floor troops from the Reserve Brigade then infiltrating the bottom and discovering the provides being readied for Hezbollah’s most sensible warring parties.
“This bunker used to be able for the battalion of [the terror group’s elite] Radwan forces to … do a raid into Israel and do a bigger scale of bloodbath than Oct. 7,” Hagari stated.
Israeli forces discovered rifles, munitions and explosives, in addition to bedrooms within the bunker. IDF
A number of rocket launchers have been additionally prepped for Hezbollah’s Radwan unit. IDF
That is the second one time Israel has accused Hezbollah of plotting an Oct. 7-style invasion into northern Israel, with Israeli President Isaac Herzog claiming that Radwan commanders have been making plans such an assault remaining month.
Herzog stated an invasion within the north has lengthy been a objective of “the Empire of Evil of Iran,” as he justified an airstrike in Beirut that killed 16 Hezbollah commanders and operatives.
Hagari stated Monday that the truth that the bunker used to be positioned so just about the border used to be a transparent violation of the UN Safety Council’s Answer 1701, which ended the Israeli-Lebanon struggle in 2006.
There used to be additionally sufficient meals and provides saved within the base to remaining for days. IDF
The solution referred to as for a ceasefire and demilitarized buffer zone between Israel and Lebanon, the place the IDF and Hezbollah are these days combating.
The IDF vowed to proceed its operations in southern Lebanon till it absolutely dismantles Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure within the space, making sure the fear staff not poses a risk to northern Israel.
