How about Hezbollah’s complex tunnel system, which is far more sophisticated than Hamas’s?

An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman revealed two weeks ago one of the most extensive attack tunnels in the Gaza Strip: a structure four kilometers long, wide enough to allow the passage of vehicles. It extends from Jabaliya, north of Gaza City, to about 400 meters from the border with Erez, Israel.

The discovery of this massive tunnel has reignited debate over similar tunnels near and below the Lebanese border. This especially comes amid ongoing clashes with the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist army.

The Israeli-Lebanese border faces the greatest tensions since the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006This followed an increase in aggression by pro-Palestinian militias the day after the war began.

Israel has deployed more than 200,000 troops to its northern border, where the violence has also displaced thousands of residents: about 80,000 people have been evacuated from communities in northern Israel and more than 70,000 have fled to southern Lebanon.

He tunnel project in lebanon It began and developed long before Gaza. Existing intelligence points to a vast network of tunnels in southern Lebanon, deep and multifaceted.

At the Alma Research and Education Center, focused on security challenges on Israel’s northern border, researchers have spent years investigating Lebanon’s underworld. Tal Biri, director of the ALMA research department and former member of IDF intelligence units, exposed this underground network based on considerable open source intelligence.

A few years ago, Biri managed to locate a “Polygon Map” In which southern Lebanon was called “the land of tunnels”. “The map is marked by an unknown portion, with polygons indicating 36 geographic regions, cities and towns,” he wrote in a 2021 article. “In our assessment, these polygons mark Hezbollah preparation centers as part of the ‘defense’ against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Each local preparation (‘defense’) center contains a network of local underground tunnels. All of these centers “An infrastructure of regional tunnels was built between them, which were connected to each other.”

Biri estimated the total length of Hezbollah’s tunnel network in southern Lebanon to be Hundreds of kilometers.

in an interview with israel timeBiri highlighted that the discovery of the Jebaliya-Erez tunnel highlighted the need to intensify efforts, especially when considering the sophistication of infrastructure in Lebanon compared to Gaza.

Addressing North Korea’s connection to Hezbollah’s tunnel project, Berri noted preliminary excavations in Lebanon This was done with the help of North Korea in the late 1980s and 1990s. Relations continued after the Second Lebanon War in 2006, and Hezbollah continued to receive aid from Iran.

Hezbollah gained essential experience and technology from North Korea for 25 years. In 2014, they already had the ability to dig and build tunnels independently. They created civilian companies owned by Shias that were allegedly engaged in civilian infrastructure projects, but were actually involved in tunnel construction.

Biri said Hezbollah’s precision-guided missile presence easily integrates into the tunnel scenario. These missiles can be carried on trucks Launched from platforms built at the exits of the tunnels, Allowing fast, mobile launches that are difficult to track from the air.