{"id":900550,"date":"2026-06-29T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/900550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:19:19","slug":"idf-destroys-200-meter-long-terror-tunnel-in-lebanon-benjamin-netanyahu-katz-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/900550\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF destroys 200-meter-long terror tunnel in Lebanon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Katz announce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IDF destroyed a 200-meter terror tunnel used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-900698\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah<\/a> in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-900654\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netanyahu<\/a> and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel, located near the village of Majdal Zoun in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-900707\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">southern Lebanon<\/a>, was over 25 meters deep. It contained hundreds of weapons and several shafts from which rockets would be launched towards Israel, according to Netanyahu and Katz&#8217;s statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF announced that the demolition mission was carried out by forces from the 551st Brigade in coordination with Yahalom Combat Engineers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The tunnel system, which the 551st Brigade had taken earlier in June, could not be destroyed by airstrikes and thus had to be captured and destroyed from within.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">20 Hezbollah terrorists, including 10 members of the group&#8217;s Radwan Force, were killed as IDF forces fought to take control of the tunnel, and 50 items of terrorist infrastructure (including drones, anti-tank missiles, and weapons) were seized and destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu and Katz said that Israel had informed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-900656\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a> in advance of the demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF destroyed a 200-meter terror tunnel used by Hezbollah in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":900551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[181890,4783,99,13192,93846,50,39899],"class_list":["post-900550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-attack-tunnels","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-lebanon-israel-war","tag-news","tag-tunnel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116832892883842115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}