{"id":282760,"date":"2026-02-09T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/282760\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:55:47","slug":"us-commander-lauds-laf-over-hezbollah-tunnel-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/282760\/","title":{"rendered":"US commander lauds LAF over Hezbollah tunnel discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Congratulations to the LAF for recently finding a massive underground Hezbollah terror tunnel for the second time in the past two months,&#8221; Cooper wrote. &#8220;Dismantling tunnels nefariously used by non-state actors to store ammunition, missiles, and attack drones, promotes peace and stability in Lebanon and across the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Job well done by the LAF and [the] US-led Mechanism team that is helping enforce commitments made by Israel and Lebanon,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>This comes shortly after LAF chief General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-885465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodolphe Haykal met with US officials<\/a> in Washington and CENTCOM&#8217;s headquarters in Tampa, Florida, last week, where he discussed the Trump administration&#8217;s support for LAF and to discuss efforts to disarm Hezbollah terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Seth J. Frantzman and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Congratulations to the LAF for recently finding a massive underground Hezbollah terror tunnel for the second time in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47994,16606,42,86,25601,128895,9632,88,11982,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-282760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-centcom","tag-drone","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-hezbollah-disarmament","tag-hezbollah-terrorist-organization","tag-lebanese-army","tag-lebanon","tag-missiles","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}