Israel Triggers Earthquake by Detonating Hezbollah Tunnel Network in Lebanon

Israel triggered an 4.1 earthquake by detonating a long tunnel network constructed by Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon.Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday released footage of the blast and praised the IDF for its work in an X post saying, “We promised and we delivered.”The 1,100 tons of explosives used in the blast that destroyed the 1.3 mile long Ali al-Taher Ridge tunnels was so large that it registered as a magnitude 4.1 earthquake on seismometers.IDF spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said the network had been built over the course of two decades and construction was funded and directed by the Iranian regime.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it the largest Iranian outpost outside of Iran. “Completing the mission. Happy New Year!” Mr. Netanyahu said in an X post on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.The IDF’s Northern Command forces and the 36th Division started operations around the network in early August with an encirclement that methodically closed in before troops secured operational control of the ridge. Last week, the military said it had completed capturing and clearing out the tunnel system.Israeli media reported that more than 100 Hezbollah terrorists and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps advisors were trapped in the tunnels during the siege.The structure was reportedly a central command complex for Hezbollah’s Badr Unit in southern Lebanon and was built to allow people to remain underground for extended periods. The IDF said it found hundreds of mines and explosives and dozens of Iranian-made rockets, missiles, UAVs, machine guns, in the tunnels before the detonation.Residents of northern Israel were notified ahead of the detonation that they could hear the explosions.The IDF says, with the blast, it has now completed destroying a major 3.5 mile long Hezbollah tunnel network of eight tunnels in the Ali Taher and Beaufort Castle area.Mr. Netanyahu said that the IDF is “preparing for defense in the area and to prevent the enemy from returning to the territory.”Iran had warned that it would respond to any Israeli offensive against the facility, Reuters reported last week, but that threat came after the IDF had already captured the site.

Israel Triggers Earthquake by Detonating Hezbollah Tunnel Network in Lebanon

Israel Triggers Earthquake by Detonating Hezbollah Tunnel Network in Lebanon

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