AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has an underground tunnel system and could launch a larger attack on the occupied Palestinian territories than the one Hamas launched on October 7, an Israeli official said.
In remarks quoted by the Israeli 103FM radio station on Sunday, the head of Israel’s Upper Galilee Regional Council, Giora Zelz, warned that Hezbollah could launch a larger attack on Israel with its underground tunnel.
Zelz said that there was no deterrent to Hamas and Hezbollah, which seems to have the upper hand in northern Israel.
The Upper Galilee Regional Council is a regional council in Israel’s Upper Galilee region, bordered by the Mevo’ot HaHermon Regional Council and the Golan Regional Council, as well as a border with southern Lebanon.
Moreover, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that a number of settlements in the Galilee have been closed due to warnings of antitank missiles being launched from Lebanon.
It said all settlements in the Upper Galilee that are up to 4km (2.5 miles) from the border and a number of settlements in the Western Galilee have been closed. There are warning sirens sounding in the Western Galilee.
Hezbollah said in a statement on Saturday that it had conducted retaliatory strikes against Israeli positions, targeting barracks and gathering sites near the border in response to the regime’s genocidal war on Gaza.
The statement added that a group of Israeli soldiers were struck at the Birkat Risha outpost in the north of the occupied Palestinian territories.
A number of Israeli soldiers were also injured when Lebanese resistance fighters targeted the Bayad Blida site.
Hezbollah launches the strikes in solidarity with the resilient Palestinian population in Gaza.
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