Israel has put its forces on the border with Lebanon on a war footing as part of the Northern Shield operation aimed at destroying tunnels of the Hezbollah group.
The Israeli Defence Forces announced on Twitter on Tuesday the start of an operation to ‘expose and neutralise cross-border’ tunnels that Hezbollah is using to attack Israel from Lebanese territory.
According to the Haaretz news outlet, the Israeli armed forces knew of Hezbollah’s plans dating back to 2006 to construct attack tunnels at points along the Israel-Lebanon frontier in order to conduct attacks against the Jewish state.
