IDF Destroys Hezbollah Tunnels in Qantara and Ras Al-Biyada, Lebanon

The IDF exposed and destroyed two strategic Hezbollah tunnels in the areas of Qantara and Ras al-Biyada last week, and it also uncovered another prominent strategic tunnel in October 2024 around Rab al-Thalathine.

“Last week, the IDF exposed and destroyed two strategic Hezbollah tunnels — in the areas of Qantara and Ras al-Biyada”

Alma Research and Education Center

The Alma Research and Education Center said the tunnel documentation showed “wide tunnels, command-and-control rooms, field clinics, electricity and ventilation infrastructure,” and it described the network as “The Land of Tunnels.”

Alma Research and Education Center

In parallel, the Israeli army announced on Sunday that it destroyed a Hezbollah tunnel about 80 meters long in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon, and it said combat engineers demolished the underground site after sweeping the area.

The same reporting said the Israeli army was working to entrench its control over a security zone extending up to 10 kilometers inside Lebanon, while it continued bombing southern Lebanon.

The Times of Israel was cited in the local reporting as saying the tunnel contained several rooms used by Hezbollah as dwellings before engineers destroyed it.

As Israeli air raids and artillery bombardment continued, the National News Agency reported two martyrs in an Israeli air strike on the town of Adloun in the Sidon District of southern Lebanon and two more martyrs and eight wounded in strikes on Hawsh Sour, al-Borj al-Shami, the Popular Housing, and Al-Bazouriya.

The same source said the warplanes targeted agricultural lands in Sour, which led to the complete destruction of a house and leveling it to the ground, and it added that two journalists were lightly injured in an Israeli strike on the Al-Qasmiya Bridge.

The Times of India

Hezbollah said it repelled attempts by Israeli ground forces to advance in southern Lebanon and, in a Thursday statement, said it laid a careful ambush for Israeli forces attempting to advance in the border village of Al-Tayba and struck them with guided missiles.

Hezbollah also said its fighters destroyed six Israeli Merkava tanks, while Israeli Channel 15 reported that a rocket reaching the Gaza envelope yesterday from Lebanon was launched from the Baalbek area in the east, about 315 kilometers away.

Military affairs analyst Mohammad Al-Somadi on Al-Arabi TV described the shift as “a real shift in the Israeli military doctrine in Lebanon amid the incursions and ground movements” to establish buffer zones.

The reporting said the war in Lebanon entered its third month amid ongoing Israeli escalation in the south despite the declaration of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah on April 17 and its extension after direct talks that brought the ambassadors of Lebanon and Israel to Washington.

The Israeli army issued an evacuation warning to residents of 11 villages in southern Lebanon before launching heavy airstrikes on dozens of southern towns in the Nabatieh and Tyre districts, according to the same account.

The Times of India said the IDF released “exclusive footage” showing living quarters allegedly used by Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon and that it claimed more than 100 military targets were struck during the operations.

It also described a drone conflict in which Hezbollah published videos of more than 45 FPV drone attacks since fighting intensified in March, and it said many attacks continued even after a shaky ceasefire was announced in April.

Reuters was cited in the report for Hezbollah’s reliance on low-cost First Person View (FPV) kamikaze drones and for Hezbollah media relations chief Youssef el-Zein saying, “We are taking advantage of the points of weakness to create that balance.”