The UN’s peace mission in Lebanon (Finul) announced on Thursday (7) that their troops found an “extensive” tunnel network in the south of the country, in whose interior appeared a series of bunkers, ammunition and weapons of different types.
“While performing its routine activities according to UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and in close coordination with the Lebanese armed forces, Finul discovered an extensive network of fortified tunnels in the vicinity of Tayr Harfa, Zibqin and Naqoura,” Mission spokesman Andrea Tenenti announced in a statement.
According to the note, blue helmets found several bunkers, artillery pieces, rocket launch platforms, explosive artifacts of various types and anti -tanker mines, as well as “hundreds” of projectiles and rockets.
About 10,000 soldiers from different countries are mobilized in the Lebanese strip ranging from the actually border with Israel to the Litani River, where, until the recent implementation of the ceasefire between the two countries, there was a strong presence by the Hezbollah terrorist group.
The announcement about the discovery of the tunnels occurred while the Lebanese government addresses the disarmament of Hezbollah, something it intends to do before the end of this year, but the group -sponsored group by Iran refused to accept.
Iran reiterates support for Hezbollah
Iran reiterated its support for Hezbollah, its main anti-Israel ally, after the group rejected a plan presented by the Lebanon government to disarm it.
“Any decision on this issue will ultimately fit Hezbollah. We support him from a distance, but we do not intervene in his decisions,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Araqchi said in an interview with state television on Wednesday night.
Araqchi defended Hezbollah’s weaponry capacity in the confrontation with Israel and said that the Israeli side believes that, after the blows suffered by the Lebanese group last year, “a conducive opportunity arose to implement this plan and disarm it.”
These comments were made amid growing internal pressure in Lebanon to limit the military power of the terrorist group amid international efforts to reduce tensions on the Israeli border.
