Beirut (Lebanon)
For several days, Hezbollah tunnels have been in the headlines of the Lebanese media.
Difficult to understand the excitement.
Some point to documents discovered in Gaza, which allegedly prove that an infiltration project from underground border constructions served as a model for Hamas' al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7 against Israel.
Others relay the translation of an article from
Libération
, which relies on Israeli sources, to assume the existence of an underground network
“more sophisticated than that of Gaza, several hundred kilometers long with ramifications up to 'in Israel and probably as far as Syria'
.
The existence of these underground passages in the border areas bordering Israel and Syria is in reality an open secret.
Certain sections have long been known to specialists: dug by the Palestinian factions, which raged in Lebanon in the 1960s and 1970s, one is thus noted in the Chouf in the center...
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