{"id":503241,"date":"2026-06-21T00:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503241\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:13:15","slug":"idf-soldiers-pin-dozens-of-hezbollah-terrorists-in-secret-tunnel-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503241\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF soldiers pin dozens of Hezbollah terrorists in secret tunnel base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IDF cornered dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-899964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hezbollah<\/a> terrorists in a huge underground base in the village of Tebnit, Israeli media reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to N12, the network of tunnels is over a kilometer in total length, and IDF forces have engaged in combat both above and below ground.<\/p>\n<p>Maariv reported that 30 Hezbollah terrorists were trapped inside, fighting back against the IDF using mortars and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-899862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF stated that the base was one of the most important Hezbollah headquarters in southern Lebanon, and that the operation in the area was intended to remove a long-term threat to northern Israeli communities.<\/p>\n<p>US intelligence agencies have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-899956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">warned<\/a> the White House that continued Israeli operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon may undermine the Trump administration\u2019s recently signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-899972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Memorandum of Understanding with Iran<\/a>, according to a report in The Washington Post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The report was published shortly after it was announced that Israel and the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah had reached a ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">IDF spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Effie Defrin clarified on Friday afternoon that the military will continue to remove immediate threats to Israel\u2019s national security and respond to any Hezbollah violations of the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Goldie Katz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF cornered dozens of Hezbollah terrorists in a huge underground base in the village of Tebnit, Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[127486,86,21224,1031,85,87,46,88,43,98,75233],"class_list":["post-503241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-effie-defrin","tag-hezbollah","tag-hezbollah-lebanon","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-terrorism","tag-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503241","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=503241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}