Israel destroys 200-meter Hezbollah underground tunnel in southern Lebanon: PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister

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The ceasefire was supposed to hold.

It didn't.

Deep beneath a quiet village in southern Lebanon, Israeli troops just found something that shouldn't have existed under a truce.

A tunnel.

200+ meters long.

25 meters deep.

Packed with hundreds of weapons.

And four launch shafts — all pointed straight at Israel. 🎯


🕳️ Welcome to "Operation Closing Verse"

That's what Israel is calling it.

The target: a hidden Hezbollah complex buried under Majdal Zoun, a civilian village near the Israeli border.

Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz dropped the news in a joint statement.

The IDF says the tunnel wasn't some scrappy DIY job. It was built with technology and expertise from Iran.

Translation: Tehran's fingerprints are all over it.


⚡ What was inside

  • 🗝️ A tunnel route stretching 200+ meters
  • ⛏️ Dug 25 meters below the surface
  • 🔫 Hundreds of weapons stockpiled
  • 🚀 Four launch shafts aimed at Israeli territory
  • 🛏️ Living quarters for fighters to hide out long-term

This wasn't a hideout. It was a launchpad waiting for a signal.


🇺🇸 The quiet phone call before the boom

Here's the part most people missed.

Israel told the United States before it blew the tunnel.

The American envoy in Lebanon got a heads-up too.

Why does that matter?

Because the strike landed 48 hours after Lebanon and Israel signed a US-brokered framework — a phased Israeli pullback in exchange for Lebanese army deployment.

The ink wasn't even dry. 🖋️


🔥 Hezbollah's response: "flagrant violation"

Hezbollah called it a "blatant" breach of the ceasefire.

Leader Naim Qassem went further — rejecting the entire US-brokered deal as a surrender. Armed resistance continues, he said.

And Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a key Hezbollah ally, called the agreement "contradictory and impossible to implement."

His words: "This agreement will not pass."


🌊 The bigger picture

The ceasefire was brokered earlier this year with US, Qatari and Iranian mediation.

It's been violated by both sides — repeatedly.

Now you have:

  • 🇮🇱 Israel saying we'll keep destroying threats
  • 🇱🇧 Lebanon's leadership splintering over the deal
  • ☢️ Iranian-built infrastructure still buried under villages
  • 🤝 A US framework hanging by a thread

A 200-meter tunnel got destroyed today.

But the fault line underneath the entire region just got a lot wider.

And everyone on both sides of that border knows it.

That's all for now!