IDF Destroys Hezbollah Tunnel Network in Majdal Zoun, Stores Drones and Warheads

The Israeli military said it destroyed a fortified underground Hezbollah tunnel network in the southern Lebanese village of Majdal Zoun on Sunday night, describing it as one of Hezbollah’s major preparedness sites in the western sector.

“Toggle Play Israel triggers huge explosion in southern Lebanon A massive explosion shook the southern Lebanese village of Majdal Zoun as Israel’s military claimed it destroyed a ‘200-metre-long Hezbollah tunnel’”

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The IDF said the compound was built more than 25 meters below ground and stretched over 200 meters, and that it was used to store weapons including drones, warheads and explosives.

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The blast was “heard across northern Israel on Sunday evening,” and the IDF said it found hundreds of weapons inside the tunnel network along with four launch shafts aimed at Israeli territory.

In parallel, Israel National News reported that an IDF reserve soldier was severely injured earlier in the day by an explosion in southern Lebanon in the village of Arnoun near the Beaufort Ridge, with the IDF unable to determine the source with certainty and the lead assumption that it was caused by an IED.

Israel’s IDF said the operation, named “Sof Pasuk,” destroyed Hezbollah’s underground terror infrastructure near Majdal Zoun, and it added that it would continue to operate in the security zone in southern Lebanon to remove any threat to its forces.

The Israeli army also said it notified the United States and the American representative in Lebanon ahead of the demolition, while Israel National News reported that the IDF conducted a preliminary inquiry into the Arnoun explosion but “has so far been unable to determine with certainty the source of the explosion.”

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In a separate account, سكاي نيوز عربية said Lebanese media reported that the explosions targeting a tunnel on Sunday caused widespread material damage in Majdal Zoun and al-Mansouri near the border, and that part of Majdal Zoun was split into two sections due to the intensity of the blast.

The same report said the Israeli army announced it destroyed underground infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and that it targeted a tunnel about 200 meters long and packed with about 80 tons of explosive material.

The tunnel destruction and other incidents unfolded as Israel and Lebanon agreed to a US-brokered peace framework that would keep Israeli forces in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed and the Lebanese army takes control of the area, a deal rejected by Hezbollah.

سكاي نيوز عربية reported that on Monday the Israeli army announced the war it is waging is not over yet, stressing that forces continue to prepare for new combat phases on the occasion of the thousandth day since the outbreak of the clashes in the Middle East.

Elsewhere in the reporting, Premium Times Nigeria said the Lebanese Health Ministry revealed “at least 4,246 people have been killed and 12,190 others injured in Israeli attacks across the country since 2 March,” and it quoted Donald Trump criticizing the scale of Israel’s military campaign at the G7 summit in France.

In the same broader picture of ongoing fighting, الجزيرة نت said Israeli military data indicate the death of 36 officers and soldiers in clashes with Hezbollah fighters since the outbreak of the current round of fighting on March 2, and it described Hezbollah intensifying its strikes using suicide drones and guided missiles against concentrations of Israeli forces that have penetrated Lebanese territory.