The Israeli military announced Sunday that its Operation Northern Shield was wrapping up after it discovered what it said was the last “Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnel.”
The Israeli army’s spokesperson for Arabic media Avichay Adraee wrote in a tweet that Israel had discovered the tunnel, allegedly dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel, Saturday night. The tunnel supposedly starts in the Lebanese town of Ramaya in Bint Jbeil.
“With the discovery of the terrorist tunnel, all tunnels dug by Hezbollah into Israel were uncovered. The tunnel will be destroyed in the next few days,” Adraee said.
Adraee added that Israel would continue to regularly check for tunnels along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
The tunnel was the sixth Israel claimed to have discovered since launching Operation Northern Shield to find and destroy such tunnels in early December.
UNIFIL, the United Nation’s peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, has confirmed the existence of at least four tunnels so far but has not commented on who built them.
Another Israeli spokesman, Jonathan Conricus, said that UNIFIL has been notified of the sixth tunnel.
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