This is the moment Israeli forces stormed a Hezbollah missile base hidden deep beneath a Lebanese mountain.
Soldiers seized AK-47 rifles, anti-tank rockets and mortar shells within the underground compound, the IDF confirmed.
As well as weapons, troops found logistical and medical supplies in the hideout, which was also equipped with military tents.
The base also concealed surface-to-air missiles and a launcher aimed at civilian communities in northern Israel.
It comes as the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of the Baalbek area in eastern Lebanon, warning that it was ready to strike Hezbollah targets there and in nearby Douris.
IDF forces uncovered a Hezbollah missile base hidden deep beneath a Lebanese mountain
A rifle discovered inside the Hezbollah missile base
A cannon was found concealed within the mountain on a track, and pointing towards Northern Israel
The concealed launcher that was discovered in the military base, which was found to contain surface-to-air missiles along with logistical and medical supplies
A high-powered IED discovered during the operation carried out by Shayetet 13 commandos
Mortar shells found within the Hezbollah compound, hidden deep underneath a mountainside
The same commando unit captured Hezbollah operative Imad Amhaz overnight during the raid of a chalet in Batroun, south of the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli
The latest discovery of a Hezbollah base was made by Shayetet 13 commandos.
The same unit also carried out a snatch and grab mission to capture Hezbollah boss Imad Amhaz overnight.
Amhaz is believed to be a significant source of knowledge’ in the terror group’s naval force.
The Hezbollah operative was found during the raid of a chalet on the coast of Batroun, south of Tripoli, Lebanon.
It comes as Israel’s Home Front Command sounded sirens at regular intervals along the border as dozens of projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory since Sunday morning.
The military said its forces continued to carry out ‘targeted raids’ in southern Lebanon aimed at eliminating Hezbollah fighters.
‘You are currently located near the facilities and assets associated with Hezbollah, which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will be targeting in the near future,’ the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on X addressed to residents of Baalbek and Douris.
Meanwhile, Israel hit back at claims it targeted children at a Gaza vaccine clinic, after four were left wounded by a strike.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the health centre was ‘in an area where a humanitarian pause was agreed to allow vaccination to proceed’ and the attack could off parents of children needing a second vaccine to be covered.
An Israeli airstrike targeting the Lebanese city of Baalbeck on Sunday
A man climbs through the rubble of a collapsed building in the Lebanese town of Ghazieh
Israel and Hezbollah have been locked in a deadly war since September 23 that has killed more than 1,900 people in Lebanon, according to Lebanese health ministry figures.
Clashes between Israeli forces and the Lebanese terror group first erupted on October 8 last year when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel in support of its ally Hamas, a day after the Palestinian militant group launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from Gaza.
A total of 43,341 Palestinians have died in Israeli strikes on Gaza, a majority of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry.
Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel resulted in 1,206 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.