An underground tunnel hundreds of meters long near Khan Yunis was destroyed by the IDF during operations to clear the area east of the Yellow Line in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said on Sunday.
The operation was conducted by the IDF’s 188th Brigade, under the command of the 143rd Gaza Division, alongside the Yahalom Unit’s combat engineers.
Three living quarters were found in the tunnel, and dozens of weapons were discovered and confiscated by the IDF.
The weapons found included at least 45 grenades and 35 cartridges, 10 Kalashnikov-type rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, about 10 explosives, and six vests.
IDF strikes Hezbollah engineering vehicles in southern Lebanon
Earlier on Sunday, the IDF struck several engineering vehicles belonging to Hezbollah in the area of Mazra’at Aboudiyeh in southern Lebanon, the army said in a statement.
“The vehicles were struck while being used by Hezbollah terrorists to reestablish terror infrastructure sites in the area,” according to the statement.
Hezbollah’s attempt to reestablish its infrastructure is a “violation of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” it said.
In a separate announcement, the IDF said it struck a Hezbollah terrorist in the al-Dweir area of southern Lebanon.
IDF's 769th Brigade destroys Hezbollah terror infrastructure, prevents attempts to rebuild in southern Lebanon
Additionally, the IDF’s 769th Brigade has been operating across southern Lebanon over recent months to dismantle terrorist infrastructure used by Hezbollah, the military confirmed on Sunday.
Soldiers have dismantled weapons and destroyed terrorist infrastructure, including an anti-tank missile storage station and weapons storage facilities, the military stated.
The soldiers also dismantled a structure near al-Khiyam that was used by Hezbollah operatives to fire anti-tank missiles toward Israeli territory, the army added.
Later on Sunday, the military’s 7th Armored Brigade also identified several terrorists approaching troops near the Yellow Line. The soldiers opened fire to eliminate the imminent threat and killed at least one of the terrorists, the IDF confirmed.
IDF kills senior Hezbollah engineer
The IDF, later on Sunday, announced that it struck and killed Ali Dawoud Amich, who served as a division head within Hezbollah's engineering department.
Amich was involved in attempts to rebuild Hezbollah's terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon and advance terror attacks against IDF soldiers, the military specified.
Albanese slams IDF weekend strikes in Gaza
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned the IDF’s latest weekend strikes in Gaza in a Sunday post on X/Twitter.
“After killing 500+ people in about three months, Israel – armed and supported by the US – continues its genocide in Gaza undisturbed,” Albanese’s post read. “Don’t let it become the new normal. Stand up against genocide!”
According to the IDF, the strikes came in response to ceasefire violations by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Friday.
The targets of the operation on Saturday were a weapons storage facility, a weapons manufacturing site, and two launch locations belonging to Hamas in the central Gaza Strip, the IDF said.
Tobias Holcman contributed to this report.