JERUSALEM:
Israeli forces have been finishing up raids into southern Lebanon for months, uncovering Hezbollah tunnels and weapon caches below houses and uncovering invasion plans by the group, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari stated on Tuesday.
Hagari stated the small print have been being declassified, hours after Israel introduced a floor operation in opposition to the Iran-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Dozens of such operations had uncovered detailed plans by Hezbollah to enter Israel and perform an assault just like the one led by the Palestinian Hamas in southern Israel on October 7 final yr.
“Our troopers entered Hezbollah’s underground infrastructure; uncovered Hezbollah’s hidden weapons caches and seized and destroyed the weapons together with superior, Iranian-made weapons,” Hagari stated.
The findings and proof found below houses in villages in southern Lebanon in the course of the raids can be offered to the worldwide group, Hagari stated.
Hagari confirmed movies filmed on troops’ body-cameras from what he stated have been Hezbollah tunnels below three Lebanese villages that lie throughout the border from three Israeli cities. The forces additionally discovered maps marking Israeli communities and armed forces posts, he stated.
“The operations that we de-classified tonight are solely a small variety of dozens of operations that we’ll reveal going ahead, together with the destruction of Hezbollah’s strategic belongings and capabilities,” he stated.
Hagari stated that the bottom raids would proceed till tens of 1000’s of uprooted Israelis dwelling close to the border are capable of return safely to their houses, however that the army’s purpose was to finish them as quick as they’ll.
“We’re not going to Beirut. We’re not going to the cities in southern Lebanon. We are specializing in the world of these villages subsequent to our border,” stated Hagari.
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