The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) destroyed a fortified Hezbollah underground drone complex in southern Lebanon’s Majdal Zoun on June 28, in an operation that exposed an assessment failure. Air Force intelligence had previously cleared the site as inactive, while ground forces found it fully armed.
Forces from the 551st Brigade Combat Team and Yahalom, the IDF’s elite combat engineering unit, carried out the demolition under the 91st Division’s command.
Named Operation Sof Pasuk (“Closing Verse”) by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, the tunnel ran more than 200 meters and reached more than 25 meters beneath the village.
Troops found hundreds of weapons across 12 rooms, including dismantled drones, warheads, and explosives, stored behind blast doors and four launch shafts aimed at Israeli territory. The IDF said more than 20 Hezbollah fighters were killed in the operation, including about 10 members of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, the group’s elite commando unit.
‼️EXPOSED: An underground Hezbollah terror tunnel, under the village of Majdal Zoun, containing hundreds of weapons and 4 launch shafts aimed at Israel.
The tunnel is 200+ meters long and 25+ meters deep, and contains 4 launch shafts and 12 rooms, including living quarters and… pic.twitter.com/TcgRWoiu4x
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 21, 2026
“The compound was built using technology and knowledge from the Iranian terror regime,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit stated.
Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth reported that officers in the 36th Division had recommended striking the site during Operation Northern Arrows, nearly two years earlier, but Air Force intelligence assessed it as dormant and free of weapons.
The Air Force struck only the tunnel’s entrance in 2024. When IDF ground units entered in June 2026, they found a fully stocked facility.
The demolition came two days after Israel and Lebanon signed a US-brokered security framework on June 26. Netanyahu and Katz said Israel informed the United States and its representative in Lebanon before the strike.
Hezbollah called the Israeli operations a “flagrant” ceasefire violation and said it reserves the right to defend its “homeland and people.” Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has rejected the framework, calling it a surrender to Israel.
