The Israeli navy uncovered an underground Hezbollah bunker close to its border with Lebanon that was stocked with weapons and bikes for a deliberate invasion of Israel, officers stated Monday.
Israel Protection Power spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari stated in a video tour of the tunnel that Israeli forces situated the subterranean terrorist command middle in southern Lebanon, with the bottom stretching throughout almost half a mile of land — and set for use for “a bigger scale of a bloodbath than Oct. 7.”
Inside, the IDF troopers discovered helicopter missiles, mortar shells, recordsdata, ammunition, bikes and sufficient meals and provides to final for days for Hezbollah’s elite Radwan troops as they allegedly ready for operation “Conquer the Galilee.”
“They had been planning, with these bikes right here, to enter Kiryat Shmona, to Yiftah, to villages and positions inside Israel and conduct a bloodbath,” Hagari stated, claiming it might have been bigger than the Oct. 7 terrorist assault.
The IDF captured the underground advanced late final week after a Hezbollah fighter was situated hiding contained in the bunker.
The terrorist was killed by the Israeli Air Power, with floor troops from the Reserve Brigade then infiltrating the bottom and discovering the provides being readied for Hezbollah’s high fighters.
“This bunker was prepared for the battalion of [the terror group’s elite] Radwan forces to … do a raid into Israel and do a bigger scale of bloodbath than Oct. 7,” Hagari stated.
That is the second time Israel has accused Hezbollah of plotting an Oct. 7-style invasion into northern Israel, with Israeli President Isaac Herzog claiming that Radwan commanders had been planning such an assault final month.
Herzog stated an invasion within the north has lengthy been a aim of “the Empire of Evil of Iran,” as he justified an airstrike in Beirut that killed 16 Hezbollah commanders and operatives.
Hagari stated Monday that the truth that the bunker was situated so near the border was a transparent violation of the UN Safety Council’s Decision 1701, which ended the Israeli-Lebanon conflict in 2006.
The decision known as for a ceasefire and demilitarized buffer zone between Israel and Lebanon, the place the IDF and Hezbollah are presently preventing.
The IDF vowed to proceed its operations in southern Lebanon till it totally dismantles Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure within the space, guaranteeing the fear group not poses a risk to northern Israel.
