The Israel Defense Forces demolished a major Hezbollah underground complex near Majdal Zoun in southwestern Lebanon on Sunday, destroying a tunnel system more than 200 meters long and over 25 meters deep, according to the military.
The site reportedly contained hundreds of weapons and several rocket launch silos aimed at Israeli territory. The IDF said the complex was built with technology and expertise supplied by Iran.
The operation was carried out after Israel informed the United States and the American representative in Lebanon. The operation was designed to send a message within the framework of a new diplomatic reality: Israel intends to enforce the removal of Hezbollah infrastructure from Southern Lebanon, whether Beirut can do it or not.
מאות אמצעי לחימה וארבעה פירי שיגור מכוונים לשטח מדינת ישראל: הושמד תוואי תת-קרקעי שנחשף במרחב הכפר מג׳דל זון
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The demolition comes in the context of what Israel is calling “Operation Closing Verse.” For years, Hezbollah wrote the script along Israel’s northern border: tunnels, rockets, drones, anti-tank fire, and the permanent threat of invasion. Israel absorbed, deterred, responded, and waited.
That era may now be entering its final chapter.
Last week, the Trump administration brokered a framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon the first goal of which is removing Hezbollah from Southern Lebanon and dismantling its military infrastructure there. Israel remains adamant that its forces will remain in Southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed and no longer poses a threat to northern Israeli communities. The old assumptions based on toothless guarantees are dead.
Of course, no one expects this to go smoothly.
Hezbollah will do everything possible to preserve its arsenal and political veto. Iran will not quietly surrender its most important forward proxy on Israel’s border. And Hezbollah’s allies inside Lebanon’s political system will almost certainly attempt to slow, dilute, reinterpret, or sabotage any arrangement that threatens the group’s military autonomy. Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has already publicly vowed as much.
This is why Israel is treating the agreement not as a guarantee, but as an opening.
The destruction of the Majdal Zoun tunnel was an act of enforcement. It told Hezbollah that infrastructure once hidden beneath Lebanese soil is now vulnerable. It told Beirut that signatures in Washington will not substitute for action on the ground. And it told the residents of northern Israel that Jerusalem does not intend to return them to a pre-war illusions.
“Closing Verse” is a statement of direction.
Israel sees the beginning of the end of Hezbollah’s border threat. Hezbollah sees an existential challenge to its armed state-within-a-state. Lebanon now stands between those two realities.
The next phase will determine whether the framework becomes a turning point — or merely another document buried beneath the rubble of Middle East conflict.
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