The IDF on Tuesday announced it has destroyed the largest Hezbollah tunnel city in all of southern Lebanon, built with significant aid from Iran. According to the IDF, the network could have housed and provided weapons, communications, and other operational infrastructure for thousands of Radwan Forces elite terrorists in the area. During its 2024 invasion of Lebanon, the IDF found three tunnel city networks, but this one, near Kantara, was by the largest.
Some 11 kilometers from the border, in southern Lebanon, Kantara sits roughly parallel to the midpoint between Israeli moshavim Margaliyot and Dovev in Upper Galilee. The IDF informed that the tunnel was two kilometers long and 10 km. wide; photos show that it had spread out in several different directions under numerous other villages in the area.
In fact, the tunnel network was even larger than originally described, as its description only included the large western portion of the network. There is an almost parallel eastern tunnel network, which Hezbollah probably intended to connect to the western network at some point. That eastern network is also relatively large and is being destroyed.
Division 36, including the 7th Armored Brigade 7, the 1st “Golani” Brigade, commandos, and the “Yahalom” Special Operations Engineering Unit, were all involved in extended fighting moving from east to west in Lebanon from Rav Talatin (the 30-km. buffer zone established by Israel) to the village of A-Taibah and eventually to Kantara. (Read More)
