A senior IDF Northern Command officer told Ynet that Hizbullah has set up an extensive underground bunker network not far from the Israeli border.
Hizbullah terrorists were hiding out in the fortified underground bunkers some 40 meters (roughly 120 feet) underground, along with mass weapons caches, the officer said.
Uhmmm...but wasn't this a construction site for a new mosque?
Israel raids former al-Khiam detention center (Photo:Reuters)
Cycle ends: IDF targets al-Khiam detention center
At least five rockets fired at buildings in former detention center in south Lebanon; 'Israel interested in eliminating memories of Zionist terror there,' al-Manar says of attack Roee Nahmias
The Israel Air Force on Thursday attacked a detention center operated by Israel in the southern Lebanese city of al-Khiam during its presence in south Lebanon.
According to a report in Hizbullah's al-Manar television station, the Israeli air force dropped at least five bombs on the compound.
One of the bombs exploded in an area separating a jail wing and a post belonging to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
An al-Manar reported said "Israel is interested in erasing the memories of Zionist terror from there." The station said Israeli drones hovered over the compound before and during the attack.
And also from Lebanon: Until now, Hizbullah gave no further information, beyond denying that none of its leaders was injured in the air force raid on southern Beirut.
In parallel, the air force attacked targets in Baalbek, Ras el-Ain, and al-Hirmel in the Bekaa Valley.
In al-Hirmel, a bridge and a station belonging to al-Manar were hit. Three people were injured in the attack.
For now relative calm reigns over Beirut and Tyre, a unusual thing in comparison to other days.
Simultaneously, the US navy is using Greek ships to evacuate foreign nationals from Beirut. Al-Jazeera reported that 8,000 of an estimated 25,000 American citizens in Lebanon have asked to be evacuated.
Well, if it was a mosque, now the demons know they can find safety there.
A Lebanese man inspects the inside of a mosque, in the Bourj al-Barajneh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 20, 2006, that was destroyed when Israeli warplanes targeted it late Wednesday. Israeli troops met fierce resistance from Hezbollah guerrillas Thursday as they crossed into Lebanon to seek tunnels and weapons for a second consecutive day as Israel refused to rule out a full-scale invasion. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
A Lebanese man walks amongst the rubble of a mosque under construction, in the Bourj al-Barajneh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 20, 2006, that was destroyed when Israeli warplanes targeted it late Wednesday. Israeli troops met fierce resistance from Hezbollah guerrillas Thursday as they crossed into Lebanon to seek tunnels and weapons for a second consecutive day as Israel refused to rule out a full-scale invasion. (AP Photo)
A Lebanese woman points toward a mosque under construction that was destroyed in the Bourj al-Barajneh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 20, 2006, when Israeli warplanes targeted it late Wednesday. Israeli warplanes renewed airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs Thursday just after daybreak, Hezbollah TV reported. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)