IDF Destroys Hezbollah Tunnel Network in Bofor Ridge Using 700 Tons of Explosives

On the night between Thursday and Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) responded to a Hezbollah explosive drone attack on an Israeli engineering vehicle in southern Lebanon, violating the ceasefire, by demolishing tunnels belonging to the terror group in the Bofor Fortress area. Approximately 700 tons of explosives were used in the operation, which caused a significant blast that residents in the Galilee region were warned might break their windows if closed.

The explosion visibly altered the landscape of the Bofor Ridge, as documented by AFP photographs. Following the blast, Lebanese media reported an Israeli strike on the town of Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa, located a few kilometers northwest of Bofor, resulting in two injuries. Additionally, the IDF spokesperson announced that during the night, forces identified and neutralized several Hezbollah militants in the Ali Taher Ridge area, where the drone attack had occurred. An IDF combat officer was moderately wounded in the encounter and evacuated for medical treatment.

The IDF stated that the destroyed tunnel network was a strategic underground command complex used by Hezbollah's Badr unit in southern Lebanon, funded and designed by the Iranian terror regime. The infrastructure, built over two decades and located about six kilometers from Metula and the Galilee finger, served as a command center for directing attacks against Israeli forces and civilians, including launching dozens of drones, explosive drones, and anti-tank missiles.

In recent weeks, the IDF had secured control over the Bofor Ridge area, cleared and prepared the underground infrastructure for demolition. The tunnels destroyed were not used as hideouts by militants at the time, and some underground passages remain under IDF surveillance. Earlier, on July 13, the IDF had destroyed one tunnel in the network, and the recent operation eliminated most of the tunnel system in the Bofor area.