Israel Detonates Hezbollah Tunnel Network In Majdal Zoun, Strikes Near Nabatieh

Israel detonated and destroyed an extensive Hezbollah tunnel network in the southern Lebanese village of Majdal Zoun on Sunday night, with the blast heard across northern Israel.

The IDF said the underground 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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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz said the tunnel “contained hundreds of weapons as well as several launch shafts intended to target the State of Israel and its civilians,” and they said Israel informed the United States and the US representative in Lebanon in advance.

Lebanese state media reported strikes in the area, including on the southern city of Nabatieh, and Lebanon’s health ministry said two people were wounded by an Israeli stun grenade in the south.

An AFP reporter in Tyre, about 10km from the detonation near Majdal Zoun, saw smoke rising in the distance and said residents in towns south of Tyre left after hearing reports in Lebanese media that Israel might detonate nearby.

The demolition came amid tensions following Lebanon’s framework agreement with Israel on June 28, 2026, and the Israeli operation was described as the first such detonation since the agreement.

Hezbollah said it “reiterates that what the enemy has done is a blatant violation of the ceasefire to which it has adhered until now,” and it said it was monitoring and tracking these violations while reserving its right to defend its homeland and its people.

Euronews

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told his US counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday that his country “would assume its responsibilities” in implementing the agreement, while the deal makes any Israeli withdrawal conditional on Beirut disarming Hezbollah by creating “pilot zones” that the Lebanese military will take over.

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on Saturday the group would treat the deal as “null and void” and described it as “a surrender of sovereignty,” and Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said on Sunday that what “the authorities have done amounts to sedition aimed at pushing the country into chaos.”

In a phone conversation with Nabih Berri, the Iranian parliament speaker and head of Tehran’s negotiating delegation Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said, “Our goal is to end the war in Lebanon, return the refugees to their homes and remove the occupation and the withdrawal of the Zionist regime from the Lebanese territory”.

Alongside the tunnel destruction, the IDF said one of its soldiers “fell in combat” in southern Lebanon, and it later said it killed a “Hezbollah terrorist” who had clashed with its forces.

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Haaretz

The IDF said it would continue to operate in the security zone in southern Lebanon, remove any threat to its forces and “will not allow Hezbollah to harm the citizens of the State of Israel or its forces,” while Netanyahu and Katz said the operation was named “Sof Pasuk.”

The tunnel at Majdal Zoun was described as a major preparedness site in the western sector, and the IDF said it was used to store weapons including drones, warheads and explosives and included four launch shafts aimed at Israeli territory.

In parallel, the Israeli military said it had informed the US in advance of the demolition, and it said forces from the 551st Brigade Combat Team and Yahalom forces under the command of the 91st Division destroyed an underground route located in Majdal Zoun in the security zone.

The diplomatic process was already under strain, with the framework agreement signed under US sponsorship on Friday and Netanyahu insisting troops will stay in Lebanon so long as Hezbollah remains armed, while Hezbollah-affiliated voices warned the deal would trigger internal conflict.