IDF Finds Hezbollah Operations Maps Inside Tunnel Beneath Beaufort Ridge

The IDF said Saturday evening that troops from the 36th Division are deepening their operation in southern Lebanon to clear and destroy Hezbollah’s underground tunnel network beneath the strategic Beaufort Ridge. During searches in a route where dozens of militants were killed, soldiers found detailed operational maps on the tunnel walls that show how Hezbollah planned to use the ridge to threaten northern Israeli communities and carry out raids into Israel.

According to the military, the latest findings from the past few days reveal the scale of long-term Iranian involvement in the project and provide a direct look at infrastructure intended for Radwan Force fighters to use in a future conflict. The army says its goal on the ridge is to achieve full operational control of the area, remove the enemy’s firing capabilities, and systematically blow up the underground systems that Tehran financed with millions of dollars.

In one of the main tunnel routes seized recently, troops spotted a group of militants trying to escape through vertical shafts. The IDF immediately directed a precise Israeli Air Force strike, and the militants were killed from the air shortly after leaving the underground passage. When soldiers and tunnel search teams entered the route, they found the key intelligence material, large tactical maps hanging on a concrete wall.

The maps detailed lines of sight and fire from the ridge toward the Galilee Panhandle and Israeli border communities. The IDF said the material underscores the immediate threat the tunnels posed to northern towns and Hezbollah’s plan to control fire and surveillance from underground while exploiting the ridge’s terrain advantage. Rising about 700 meters above sea level, Beaufort Ridge is one of the most important strategic points in southern Lebanon, with control over it historically allowing observation and fire toward the Hula Valley, Metula, the Galilee Panhandle, and the Ramim Ridge.