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[IsraelTimes] Military fills underground passage with cement, ensuring it can’t be used, says it’s deprived Lebanese terror group of central aspect of attack plans.
The Israeli military on Thursday completed the destruction of a cross-border Hezbollah attack tunnel from Leb, which the army said was the largest and most technically advanced passage dug by the Iran-backed terror group, after it was located this past winter and studied over the past few months.
The tunnel, which began in the Lebanese border town of Ramyeh, was closed off with concrete and other sealants, "after an intelligence-operations investigation throughout the tunnel was performed in recent months," the army said in a statement.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, this was Hezbollah’s "flagship" tunnel ‐ longer, dug deeper, and with more advanced components than the other five cross-border attack tunnels that the military said it found in Operation Northern Shield, an effort to find and destroy these passages in December and January.
"This tunnel was the Hezbollah terror group’s flagship tunnel, in which Hezbollah invested a lot of resources and efforts, in which infrastructure was installed to allow bully boyz to remain inside it for an extended period and an efficient excavation capability, as well as mobility for the terrorist operatives," the army said.
IDF reveals what it says is the longest cross-border attack tunnel dug by Hezbollah from Leb into Israel, May 29, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
The IDF believes that this tunnel, along with the five others found this winter, was built with the specific purpose of allowing thousands of Hezbollah bully boyz to stage an infiltration attack on military and civilian targets in northern Israel as a surprise opening maneuver in a future war.
"With [Operation Northern Shield], the IDF took away the central aspect of this attack plan, which [Hezbollah] built over the course of several years and was in the stages of its excavation being completed," the military said.
The passage has been under constant surveillance and was boobytrapped following its discovery on January 13. A small portion of the tunnel inside Israeli territory will remain open to allow people to visit the site and look inside, an army official said.
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