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SvennoJ on 20 August 2024
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Hezbollah’s tunnel video threatens enemies but leaves much unknown

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/19/hezbollah-warns-israel-with-new-video-of-underground-tunnels

The slickly made video shows fighters driving large trucks and motorbikes through well-lit underground roads.

Some of the trucks are carrying what appear to be missiles, and as the vehicles drive through, it becomes clear what the makers of the video – the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah – are unveiling: an extensive tunnel network used to store and launch missiles and what will surely be a vital resource in any conflict with Israel.

The video, unveiled last week and titled Our Mountains, Our Treasures, serves as a warning that Hezbollah can use its expansive and concealed weapons arsenal to retaliate in kind against Israel if it launches a major operation against the group, analysts told Al Jazeera.

“This was a message to the Israelis [from Hezbollah]: We have barely scratched the surface of the type of damage we can inflict on you,” said Nicholas Blanford, an expert on Hezbollah and a fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank based in Washington, DC.


Eight wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley

Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV is reporting that at least eight people have been wounded in Israeli air raids on Bekaa Valley in eastern parts of the country. The channel cited the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

The report came after the Israeli military confirmed that its fighter jets bombed Hezbollah’s ammunition depots in the Bekaa region on Monday. Videos from the scene, posted on social media, showed huge clouds of smoke as fireballs lit up the night sky.


Israel carries out more attacks on Lebanon

The Israeli military says its fighter jets destroyed Hezbollah rocket launchers in al-Mansouri and Taybeh in southern Lebanon. The attacks followed strikes on what the Israeli military said were Hezbollah weapons depots in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.

At least eight people were wounded in Bekaa, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Six of the victims were Lebanese citizens and two were Syrian children.

Reuters estimates that some 622 people, including 416 Hezbollah fighters and 132 civilians, have been killed in Lebanon since the start of the clashes last year.


Hezbollah responds to Israel’s Bekaa strikes with large rocket salvo

In an official statement, the Lebanese group says it targeted the headquarters of the Israeli army’s Golan 210th Division in the Nafah barracks, as well as the headquarters of the artillery and armoured regiments of the 210th Division in the Yarden barracks.

It described the attack as “intense barrages” of rockets and said it was in response to Israel’s overnight strikes on the Bekaa region.

Last night, Israel carried out a series of air strikes on the area in eastern Lebanon – away from the border region. It claimed to target Hezbollah weapons depots.

Videos from the scene showed large fires and secondary explosions following the initial strike. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said nine people were injured – six Lebanese and three Syrians.

For its part, the Israeli army says that it detected the launches of “about 55” rockets in Upper Galilee and the occupied Golan Heights, adding that some were intercepted while the rest fell in open areas without causing casualties.

“Shortly after the launches, air force aircraft attacked one of the launchers from which the launches were made,” the army added.


Wildfires spreading in northern Israel after Hezbollah strikes

We reported earlier that Lebanon’s Hezbollah launched about 55 rockets at areas in Upper Galilee and the occupied Golan Heights. Israeli media says that as a result of some of the rockets making landfall, three large brush fires are spreading in open areas.

The Israeli army says that fire crews are working to extinguish them. This video from the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom shows one fire:



Israeli army says it struck targets in southern Lebanon

The military says it hit a Hezbollah rocket launcher in Lebanon’s Beit Lif area earlier today. A statement said there were attacks on Israel from the launching post yesterday.

Fighter jets also hit a building used by Hezbollah in Aita al-Shaab, the statement added.


Two people killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least two people have been killed in Dheira with the National News Agency reporting that Israeli jets carried out two air strikes on the southern Lebanese village.


Hezbollah launches rockets and drones on northern Israel

The Israeli military has confirmed that about 40 rockets and multiple drones were launched from Lebanon at northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights in the past few hours.

After air raid sirens sounded across the Upper Galilee, it said most projectiles were intercepted and reported no casualties. Some of the drones made impact in the occupied Golan Heights, it said.

Hezbollah, which has claimed 10 attacks on Israeli positions so far today, said it targeted multiple military headquarters in both areas, achieving hits.

The armed Lebanese group has launched more than 100 rockets at Israeli positions today in retaliation for the Israeli air raids last night that caused large secondary explosions after hitting a Hezbollah ammunition depot in the Bekaa region.