From BBC News · · 1m 30s
Israel blows up a mile of Hezbollah tunnels
A 1,000-tonne demolition under southern Lebanon shook homes 40km away and registered as a magnitude 4.1 quake.
In brief
A 1,000-tonne demolition under southern Lebanon shook homes 40km away and registered as a magnitude 4.1 quake. The ceasefire lowered the fighting but did not end it: Israel still holds about 5% of Lebanon, 330,000 people remain displaced, and the demolitions continue. Originally reported by BBC News.
A mile of tunnels, gone
Israel's military says it used more than 1,000 tonnes of explosives to destroy two tunnels running over 2km beneath the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon.
It registered as an earthquake
The US Geological Survey measured seismic activity equal to a magnitude 4.1 quake. Tremors reached Saida, a coastal city 40km north.
Nabatieh felt it first
A resident 6km from the ridge described the sky lighting up, then the sound. People screamed, children cried, and cars packed the roads out toward Beirut.
“The house shook all together as if it was literally an earthquake.”
What Israel says was inside
The IDF describes a Badr unit command centre stocked with rockets, missiles, drones, anti-tank weapons and mines, built over two decades with Iranian money.
“All of the terrorists who were inside the infrastructure were eliminated or fled.”
A security zone, finished
The blast completed a mission to destroy eight tunnels and carve out what Israel calls a security zone. Israeli forces still occupy roughly 5% of Lebanese territory.
The ceasefire that isn't quiet
Since fighting resumed on 2 March, Lebanon's health ministry counts at least 4,383 killed and 330,000 still displaced. Israel reports 40 soldiers and four civilians dead.
The key point
The ceasefire lowered the fighting but did not end it: Israel still holds about 5% of Lebanon, 330,000 people remain displaced, and the demolitions continue.
