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2018-12-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF starts sealing Hezbollah attack tunnels, says process will ‘take time’

[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu says military using ’special means’ to neutralize passages entering Israel from southern Leb; army mum on details

The Israeli military said Thursday that it had begun to seal off some of the Hezbollah attack tunnels dug into northern Israel from southern Leb.

Unlike attack tunnels from the Gazoo Strip, which the army has at times destroyed with explosives, the Israel Defense Forces was plugging shut the passages from Leb, military officials said.

"This stage will be carried out with a number of techniques and measures, which will render the tunnels entirely unusable and will prevent Hezbollah from utilizing them and carrying out its plans," the army said in a statement.

The Israeli military launched Operation Northern Shield ‐ an effort to find and destroy attack tunnels that the military says Hezbollah dug into Israeli territory from villages in southern Leb ‐ on December 4.

IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said the army was using different methods for each tunnel as each one was unique.

"Some of them have concrete components, some of them were dug into the living rock," he said. "Each tunnel has a tailored [destruction] technique."

The process of destroying the tunnels, which began on Thursday after days of preparations, would "take time" and was likely to last well into the night, Conricus said.

The spokesperson said only some of the tunnels were being destroyed on Thursday, while others would be "neutralized" in the future.

The military warned the Lebanese population against "approaching the openings of the tunnels or standing near them" in order to avoid collateral damage, Conricus said.

Local governments and residents of the areas around the tunnels found inside Israeli territory were also informed of the IDF’s activities in order to avoid potential injuries.

The military deployed additional troops to the Lebanese border at the start of Operation Northern Shield as a precautionary measure against possible retaliatory attacks by Hezbollah. They remained in place with the start of the new stage of the operation, the IDF said.

"The Northern Command is prepared with reinforcements and a variety of other capabilities on high alert for any developments, should they occur," the army said.

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File under: Hezbollah

#1 May I suggest hitting the Lebanese entry points with massive airstrikes?

Posted by Frank G 2018-12-21 09:32|| 2018-12-21 09:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Filling them with seawater and introducing sharks with friggin' lasers on their heads.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-12-21 09:39|| 2018-12-21 09:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Not bad Mullah but I figure tying them into the sewer system would work too.

Posted by AlanC 2018-12-21 10:58|| 2018-12-21 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Fill ‘em with propane & light ‘em up.

Posted by Glenmore 2018-12-21 19:14|| 2018-12-21 19:14|| Front Page Top