'AK-47 rifles, a bedroom': Israel shares video of tunnel used by Hezbollah in Lebanon

The Israeli military released footage on Wednesday, alleging that Hezbollah members used this tunnel in South Lebanon. In the one-minute video, an Israeli soldier explored a "hundred-metre" tunnel equipped with iron doors, operational rooms, AK-47 rifles, a bedroom, a bathroom, and storage areas containing generators, water tanks, and two-wheeled vehicles.

The IDF has found the beds here with food on the table, with equipment, gold bags, uniforms, AK 47s, everything, ready to go, ready to embark from this bunker minutes from the israeli border into the communities of the north.

"This is nothing like the tunnels we saw in the Gaza," the Israeli soldier said in a video.

INSIDE LOOK into a Hezbollah terrorist tunnel in southern Lebanon: pic.twitter.com/h3ZastZHxC

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 15, 2024

Since the outbreak of the Gaza war, which began when Hamas launched attacks on Israeli towns on October 7 of the previous year, Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in conflicts along the Lebanese border.

"We are crossing the border into southern Lebanon to see what has its relevant wing in the villages of southern Lebanon, embedding itself underneath civilian houses, preparing for an October 7-style attack on northern Israel," the soldier said in a video.

"Taking years to build. These are iron doors that as you go through them, you see further down the tunnels, hundreds of meters with water tanks and equipment prepared to house those terrorists for as long as they needed. This is nothing like the tunnels we saw in Gaza. Functioning rooms, a bathroom, a storage room with generators. Radwan terrorists could stay here for weeks," she added.

The Israeli military has discovered several tunnel shafts beneath residential properties in southern Lebanon since initiating a ground incursion across the border in the latter part of the previous month. One of these tunnels, which the military claimed extended into Israeli territory, was reported to be approximately 25 metres in length.

During a recent presentation, a military official displayed the tunnel's exit point, asserting that it was located within a "Lebanese civilian house in southern Lebanon."

"In houses like this one behind me, ammunition is still being found. AK 47s, mines, gold bags and uniforms for Radwan terrorists to invade Israel. Explosions are still happening behind us and we're being moved out. But what we saw was just one of the tunnels here in southern Lebanon that Hezbollah has built for years, prepping to conduct a huge massacre on the residents of northern Israel," she added.

Earlier on Sunday also, the IDF uncovered an underground tunnel shaft inside a building and captured a Hezbollah terrorist. According to the IDF, troops identified a tunnel shaft inside a building leading to a 50-square-meter room some seven meters underground. The terror operative was hunkered down in the bunker, which also held weapons and supplies for an extended stay underground.