{"id":15798,"date":"2019-01-27T04:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T04:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15798"},"modified":"2019-01-27T04:50:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T04:50:42","slug":"discovering-tunnels-wont-save-israel-in-future-wars-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/discovering-tunnels-wont-save-israel-in-future-wars-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering tunnels won&#8217;t save Israel in future wars: Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"item-image\"><figcaption id=\"mainFigCap\">Lebanese leader of the Hezbollah movement Hassan Nasrallah speaks in a television interview on al-Mayadeen channel on January 26, 2019. (AFP photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"embed\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"embed\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Leader of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah\u00a0has openly mocked Israel\u2019s claims that it had discovered secret tunnels used by the group on the border between Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories, saying Israel was deeply wrong to think that the closure of tunnels would save it from future attacks by the resistance movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Lebanese TV station al-Mayadin on Saturday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said some of the secret tunnels run by Hezbollah that Israel claims to have discovered and destroyed in a recent operation had been built by the Lebanese group over a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat surprises us is that the Israelis were late to discover these tunnels &#8230; some of those tunnels preceded the 2006 war,\u201d Nasrallah said.<\/p>\n<p>The Lebanese leader said the tunnels formed only a small part of Hezbollah\u2019s strategy to target Israel in case a war erupts between the two, adding that it was Tel Aviv regime\u2019s fantasy to claim that destruction of tunnels has saved it from future attacks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Israel launches operation near Lebanese border against \u2018Hezbollah tunnels\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Lebanese army dismisses Israeli tunnel claims<\/li>\n<li>Netanyahu: Israel finishes operation to find tunnels<\/li>\n<li>Netanyahu overstated anti-tunnel operation on Lebanese border: Israeli opposition chief<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIs it logical that Hezbollah would enter the Galilee with thousands of fighters through four tunnels?\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI do not know whether we will attack the Galilee by sea, air, land or tunnels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/12\/13\/582843\/Israel-wont-succeed-if-it-launches-another-war-on-Lebanon-says-Hariri\">\n<div class=\"oembed\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.presstv.com\/photo\/20181213\/abd68d1f-2f9e-424a-8417-2ef8e47f779f.jpg\" alt=\"PressTV-Hariri: Israel won\u2019t succeed in new war on Lebanon\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-Hariri: Israel won\u2019t succeed in new war on Lebanon<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri says Israel will not succeed in case it decides to launch another war on Lebanon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Israel failed to uncover all\u00a0tunnels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nasrallah also refused to confirm the existence of other tunnels leading to the Israeli-occupied territories, saying that should remain a \u201cconstructive mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hezbollah leader said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his military commanders failed to undermine Hezbollah through their revelations about the tunnels, saying a two-month operation that ended this month and was meant to expose the four tunnels had effectively helped Hezbollah because it caused fear among Israeli settlers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of Netanyahu&#8217;s goals failed, and he also helped us in the realm of psychological warfare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese leader of the Hezbollah movement Hassan Nasrallah speaks in a television interview on al-Mayadeen channel on January 26, 2019. (AFP photo) &nbsp; &nbsp; Leader of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah\u00a0has openly mocked Israel\u2019s claims that it had discovered secret tunnels used by the group on the border between Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis--"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15800,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions\/15800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}