IDF Releases Footage Of Hezbollah Living Quarters In Underground Tunnels In South Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces released what it described as “exclusive footage” showing living quarters allegedly used by Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, as tensions continued despite a fragile ceasefire.

“Tehran, IRNA – Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem has declared that the resistance movement would never abandon the battlefield and warned that it would turn the field “into hell” for the Israeli regime”

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The IDF said its troops carried out special operations in the Litani area, south of what it called the “Forward Defense Line”, targeting Hezbollah infrastructure, and it claimed that more than 100 military targets were struck during the operations.

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In the same account, the IDF said its troops “struck and eliminated dozens of terrorists in close-quarters combat, alongside aerial support.”

The Times of India also tied the footage to an intensifying drone conflict, saying Hezbollah has published videos of more than 45 FPV drone attacks since fighting intensified in March.

The report added that the truce left Israeli forces operating inside a buffer zone extending up to 10 kilometres from the border, making them vulnerable to the drones.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said an agreement between Iran and the United States that includes ending Israeli hostilities in Lebanon could be the strongest avenue for halting the conflict, and he urged Lebanese authorities to withdraw from direct negotiations with Israel.

In a message addressed to Hezbollah leaders, unit officials, and fighters, Qassem said the group was confronting “an Israeli-American aggression” aimed at subordinating Lebanon and turning it into part of “Greater Israel,” and he reaffirmed that Hezbollah would not return to the conditions that existed before March 2.

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Qassem also rejected making Hezbollah’s weapons part of negotiations, telling fighters in a separate statement that “Weapons and the resistance concern no one outside Lebanon (…) this is an internal Lebanese issue that is not part of negotiations with the enemy,” and he added that his group would turn the fight “into hell”.

Noovo Info said Lebanon and Israel were due to hold a third round of negotiations in Washington on Thursday, and it described the ceasefire on the Lebanese front as being in effect since April 17.

Naharnet reported Qassem saying his group would not stop fighting and would turn the battlefield into “hell” for Israel, while also calling for indirect negotiations and saying negotiations are the responsibility of the state.

Noovo Info said that despite the ceasefire in effect since April 17, strikes continued and have killed at least 380 people since April 17, while it also quoted the ceasefire terms giving Israel “the right to take, at any time, all necessary measures in legitimate defense.”

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In a separate account, Noon Post said Israeli attacks on Lebanon reached 254 dead and 1,165 wounded, bringing the total to 1,784 dead and 5,977 injured since March 2, 2026, according to Lebanon’s General Directorate of Civil Defense.

Noon Post also described a dispute over whether Lebanon was included in the ceasefire, saying President Donald Trump denied that Lebanon was included in the agreement and that American Vice President J. D. Vance said the Iranians imagined the agreement included Lebanon but “in fact it does not.”

The same Noon Post account said Hezbollah’s drone and battlefield posture remained tied to the broader Iran-US ceasefire, while it framed the Lebanon clause debate as a political struggle over interpreting the clauses and deploying them in ways that serve each party’s goals.

Across the reporting, Qassem’s stated priorities included ending Israeli military operations against Lebanon by land, sea, and air, securing the withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied Lebanese territory, and deploying the Lebanese army south of the Litani River, as Shafaq News reported.