One Year After Being Mocked by Hezbollah

Zionist Regime Says to Build Anti-Tunnel Network Under Lebanon Border

Date: 19 January 2020 - 22:09

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WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s military has announced the start of construction of an underground network of sensors along the Lebanese border to detect tunnel building.
The project is getting under way a year after the Zionist regime’s military claimed it had destroyed a series of tunnels dug under the Lebanese border.
"All the drilling is being done on the Israeli side of the blue line,” military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, referring to the border demarcation with Lebanon, said in a conference call with journalists.
He said the planned network "was not a wall” but seismic and acoustic sensors buried in the ground.
Last year, leader of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah openly mocked the regime’s claims that it had discovered secret tunnels used by the group on the border between Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories, saying the Zionist regime was deeply wrong to think that the closure of tunnels would save it from future attacks by the resistance movement.
Speaking to the Lebanese TV station al-Mayadeen, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said some of the secret tunnels run by Hezbollah that the Zionist regime claims to have discovered and destroyed in a recent operation had been built by the Lebanese group over a decade ago.
"What surprises us is that the Israelis were late to discover these tunnels ... some of those tunnels preceded the 2006 war,” Nasrallah said.
The Lebanese leader said the tunnels formed only a small part of Hezbollah’s strategy to target the regime in case a war erupts between the two, adding that it was Tel Aviv regime’s fantasy to claim that destruction of tunnels has saved it from future attacks.
"Is it logical that Hezbollah would enter the Galilee with thousands of fighters through four tunnels?” he said, adding, "I do not know whether we will attack the Galilee by sea, air, land or tunnels.”
Nasrallah also refused to confirm the existence of other tunnels leading to the Israeli-occupied territories, saying that should remain a "constructive mystery.”
The Hezbollah leader said that Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his military commanders failed to undermine Hezbollah through their revelations about the tunnels, saying a two-month operation that ended this month and was meant to expose the four tunnels had effectively helped Hezbollah because it caused fear among Israeli settlers.