Hezbollah Militia Tunnels: Thousands of Kilometers Long Network Revealed on Israeli-Lebanese Border

Entrance to the Hezbollah militia tunnel network, Reuters

The file of Hezbollah militia tunnels on the border with Israel has become the focus of attention of the media and think tanks in the Hebrew state, after Hamas tunnels in Gaza proved to be an effective strategic weapon.

The Zaman Yisrael newspaper said on Sunday that prevailing estimates in Israel suggest that the Hezbollah militia has dug border tunnels in southern Lebanon, hundreds of kilometers long, and that they are more advanced than those dug by Hamas in Gaza.

Hundreds of kilometers

Zaman Yisrael warned that the Hezbollah militia’s tunnel project is much older than its counterpart in Gaza, and that the available information confirms that the Hezbollah militia has a major tunnel network, deeper and more complex than that owned by Hamas.

She pointed out that the Alma Center for the Study of Israeli Security Challenges in the North has been studying Hezbollah militia tunnels in recent years, citing Tal Perry, head of the research department at the center and a former officer in one of the intelligence units in the Israeli army, that there is a lot of intelligence information. Publicity regarding the Hezbollah militia tunnel project.

Perry, who had discovered and identified on maps, according to the newspaper, 36 defensive concentration points for the Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon, believed that these points “could contain tunnel openings, and that by connecting the points together, the result would be a network of tunnels extending hundreds of kilometers in length.” South Lebanon.

Strategic tunnels

In a research study conducted by the center, it monitored what could be a 45-kilometre-long tunnel, and provided evidence of the validity of its hypothesis, including public information, video clips, and monitoring of the movements of cars and trucks, and concluded that this supposed tunnel is described as a “strategic tunnel.”

He defined the strategic tunnel as a particularly long and large tunnel that leads from one area to another (from one village to another village, for example), and a car and perhaps a medium-sized truck can move inside it, while “tactical tunnels” are used for the movement of individuals only, and they can accommodate a motorcycle driving inside them. In extreme cases.

The Israeli army reveals an attack tunnel for the Hezbollah militia on the Israeli-Lebanese border

North Korea’s role

The center estimated that the “Hezbollah” militia dug all types of tunnels, some of which were close to the border with Israel, and claimed that the first digging “was with the help of North Korea in the late 1980s. It stated that there is documentation of the role of North Korea, which has historical experience in digging… Tunnels in mountainous and rocky areas.

He continued that the “Hezbollah” militia maintained its connection with North Korea after the Second Lebanon War in 2006, and Iranian support increased it, and that it obtained everything it needed from North Korea throughout 25 years of relations, which resulted in providing it with North Korean technology and knowledge until it began Drilling herself.

He gave an example of the difficulties that the Israeli army will face in this case, as it is possible for a medium truck to emerge from a tunnel, carrying “Fajr 110” missiles, to reach the launch point, and then load the launchers with missiles, then the truck returns to the tunnel, and when the Israeli fighters fly over, you will not see them. Except the mountains.

2023-12-31 11:28:56
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