Is Hezbollah Building Terror Tunnels Into Israel?

An Israeli army officer during an army-organized tour in a tunnel said to be used by Palestinian militants for cross-border attacks. Credit: Jack Guez/Reuters

Israel Concerned Hezbollah Building Terror Tunnels -- Washington Free Beacon

Eyes turn to Lebanese border following destruction of Hamas tunnels.



JERUSALEM—Even before it finished defusing the tunnel threat from the Gaza Strip Monday with the detonation of the last of 31 Hamas attack tunnels, the Israeli army began shifting its attention to the possibility of a similar threat from Hezbollah along the border with Lebanon.



Residents of communities on the northern border have periodically reported hearing the sound of underground digging over the years but despite probes by army engineers, no signs of tunneling into Israeli territory have ever been found.



However, the extent and sophistication of the Hamas tunnels from Gaza, 10 of which extended under the border fence to within a few hundred yards of Israeli kibbuzim and villages, has renewed concern about the Lebanese border. Last week, the mayor of Kiryat Shmona, the largest town on the border, sent an urgent appeal to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to investigate the matter thoroughly.



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My Comment: For the moment there is no evidence that they are building such tunnels .... Hezbollah is more focused on the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS. But it only takes one .... a few miles long and used for a terror attack .... that can completely upset Israel's sense of security on the northern border.