JERUSALEM (The Thursday Times) — The Israeli military said on Sunday it had demolished a 35-metre tunnel belonging to Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese town of Majdal Zoun.
According to the military’s statement, troops of the 300th “Baram” Regional Brigade found the tunnel during operations in the area. It said the passage contained two rooms used as living quarters by Hezbollah operatives. Combat engineers from the Yahalom unit inspected it before blowing it up, and the military released footage that it said showed the demolition. The statement added that the army would not allow Hezbollah to harm Israeli civilians or troops and remains committed to the ceasefire agreement. The account could not be independently verified.
Strikes elsewhere in the south
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that Israeli fighter jets struck the outskirts of Al-Qantara and then Kfar Tebnit in the Nabatiyeh district on Sunday, and that Israeli warplanes flew at low altitude over Tyre and surrounding towns.
A framework still stalled
The operations came despite a US-brokered framework agreement that Lebanon and Israel signed in June, which sets out a phased deployment of Lebanese troops and the withdrawal of Israeli forces, along with reconstruction and economic recovery. Implementation has faced obstacles, including Hezbollah’s refusal to disarm, which Israel has set as a condition for withdrawing from territory it occupies in Lebanon. The UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL said on 11 November that it continued to monitor daily Israeli violations in the south, including military positions, roads, explosions, airstrikes, and artillery fire, even though the intensity of fighting has declined since the June ceasefire. The Lebanese army seized an arms cache in Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold on Saturday.
