Lebanese state media said Israeli forces blew up houses in Lebanese border villages with dynamite on Saturday, while Israel said it used 400 tons of explosives to destroy a Hezbollah tunnel that has been under siege for more than a month. There is war.
“Israeli enemy forces bombed and destroyed houses in the border village of Adaise since early morning,” the official national news agency said.
The NNA also reported “large explosions” in the border village of Kfar Kila, adding that the sounds of the explosions were heard across the south as plumes of smoke rose over the area.
Israeli military spokesman Avichai Adrai said 400 tons of explosives were used to blow up a “strategic underground facility” in southern Lebanon.
The tunnel was more than 1.5 kilometers (about a mile) long, Adrai said.
The Israeli military earlier reported a “large amount of explosives detonated in Lebanon” that was powerful enough to trigger earthquake warnings across large parts of Israel.
The Israeli military has published a video showing a massive explosion taking place on the border.
Lebanese state media have reported several incidents of Israeli explosions targeting homes in border villages in recent days.
Israel’s Channel 12 aired footage on Friday showing one of its presenters accompanying Israeli soldiers as they stormed a building in the village of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah says it is fighting Israeli troops at close range in Lebanese border villages.
The two sides began cross-border firing last year, but a full-scale war broke out on September 23, when Israel stepped up its air campaign against Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon, the capital Beirut and the eastern Bekaa Valley. .
At least 1,615 people have been killed in Lebanon in the war, according to an AFP tabulation of health ministry figures, although the actual number is likely higher due to gaps in data.
According to the International Organization for Migration, the war has displaced at least 1.3 million people. According to Lebanese officials, more than 800,000 people have taken refuge in Lebanon, while more than half a million have fled to Syria, the majority of whom are Syrians.
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