VIDEO: This is how Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar fled after the October 7 attack

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The IDF claims that more than 50 “terrorist infrastructures” have been destroyed and that a cache of weapons, including landmines and anti-tank missiles, has been seized. This Sunday they released a video of the escape of the leader of the terrorist group after the attack on October 7.

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The Israeli Army claims to have discovered a tunnel network in southern Lebanon used by the militant group Hezbollah. Israel says it is dismantling the tunnels to prevent Hezbollah from using them as launching platform to attack Israel, similar to the Hamas raid last year that sparked the war in Gaza.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said they have spent the past two weeks combing southern Lebanon to uncover what they say are the Hezbollah deep strike capabilitieswith a system of tunnels equipped with weapons depots and rocket launchers that Israel says represent a direct threat for nearby communities.

In a post on X, the IDF said it had destroyed more than 50 tunnel shafts and other “terrorist infrastructures” and that a cache of weapons had been seized, including land mines and anti-tank missiles.

Israel’s war against the Iranian-backed militant group extends deep into Lebanon and its airstrikes in recent weeks have killed more than 1,700 people, about a quarter of whom were women and childrenaccording to local health authorities.

Land intervention

But its land campaign, which began on September 30, has focused on a narrow strip of land along the border, where Hezbollah has long had a presence and where many of its supporters are located.

The Gaza-based militant group Hamas, with which Hezbollah is ideologically aligned, also maintains a underground tunnel labyrinth and, on Saturday, the IDF released a video that it says shows the group’s former leader, Yahya Sinwar, using them to flee the West Bank the day before the October 7 attack on Israel.

According to the IDF, the footage, allegedly filmed on October 6, shows Sinwar and his wife and children using the tunnels to move mattresses, water bottles and other objects.

“There were no hostages with Sinwar when he was eliminated. Killing Sinwar is the result of one year of operational efforts and intelligence to bring him and other Hamas leaders to justice. Sinwar has been eliminated, but our mission is not over. We will not rest until we bring home all our hostages,” said IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari.

Sinwar masterminded the October 7 raid on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and about 250 hostages were taken back to Gaza, where about 100 are still believed to be held. The Israeli military They killed him last Wednesday after finding and identifying him in an apartment in Rafah.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that “anyone who tries to harm the citizens of Israel will pay a high price.” These comments come after what Israel describes as an assassination attempt on Netanyahu by Hezbollah.

On Saturday morning, three drones targeted Netanyahu’s residence in the coastal city of Caesarea, in the north of the country. Two of the drones were shot down, but one hit the building.

Israeli authorities have not confirmed the extent of the damage, but have said that Neither Netanyahu nor his wife Sara were in the house at the time of the attack, so they were not injured.

“The attempt by Hezbollah, proxy Iranmurdering me and my wife today has been a serious mistake. This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies to secure our future,” Netanyahu wrote in X.

Airstrikes on the Lebanese capital continued throughout Saturday, marking the heaviest attack on Beirut in more than a week. Lebanese authorities say that still the extent of the damage is being assessed and the number of victims.

For its part, the Israel Defense Forces declared that some 180 projectiles from Lebanon to Israeland that a 50-year-old man had died after being hit by shrapnel in the north of the country.