{"id":26446,"date":"2018-12-21T17:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26446"},"modified":"2018-12-21T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:37:23","slug":"israeli-army-says-destroys-hezbollah-tunnel-from-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26446","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army says destroys Hezbollah tunnel from Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1423996\/middle-east\" readability=\"50\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: The Israeli army said Friday it has blown up a cross-border tunnel dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon, the first of four it has uncovered \u2014 and pledged to destroy \u2014 in recent weeks.<br \/>\u201cA cross-border attack tunnel dug from the Shiite village of Ramyeh into Israel was detonated\u201d in an operation on Thursday night, the army said in a statement.<br \/>The Israeli military \u201cholds the Lebanese Government responsible for digging the attack tunnels and the consequences of this action,\u201d it said.<br \/>A video distributed by the army shows an officer using a megaphone to call on residents of the Lebanese village of Ramyeh to evacuate the area since the military was about to \u201cblow up this tunnel built by Hezbollah.\u201d<br \/>Israeli soldiers are also seen inserting rope-like objects into a hole in the ground, while the explosion was documented from a number of angles.<br \/>On Thursday night, a military spokesman had said the detonation would be on the Israeli side of the demarcation line with Lebanon, known as the Blue Line.<br \/>\u201cWe are conducting a defensive activity,\u201d Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told reporters.<br \/>In launching an operation to cut off the tunnels on December 4, Israel\u2019s military said it located four underground passageways infiltrating Israeli territory.<br \/>Israel alleges Hezbollah had planned to use the tunnels to kidnap or kill its civilians or soldiers, and to seize a slice of Israeli territory in the event of any hostilities, while noting they were not yet operational.<br \/>A month-long war in 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.<br \/>The UN confirmed the existence of the four tunnels and its Under Secretary for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix has called them \u201ca serious violation of Resolution 1701,\u201d which ended the 2006 war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: The Israeli army said Friday it has blown up a cross-border tunnel dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon, the first of four it has uncovered \u2014 and pledged to destroy \u2014 in recent weeks.\u201cA cross-border attack tunnel dug from the Shiite village of Ramyeh into Israel was detonated\u201d in an operation on Thursday night, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}