Netanyahu did not specify what kind of Russian weapons were found, but the photo from the Israeli military command shows, in particular, the Kornet ATGM and the Igla MANPADS.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the military found the “most modern” Russian weapons during searches at Hezbollah bases in southern Lebanon.
Netanyahu said this in an interview with Le Figaro.
As the Israeli Prime Minister noted, according to a 2006 UN Security Council resolution, only the Lebanese army is allowed to have weapons in the area south of the Litani River, a key river for the country.
“However, in this area, Hezbollah dug hundreds of tunnels and caches, where we just found a large quantity of the most modern Russian weapons,” Netanyahu said.
He also said that a new civil war in Lebanon “would be a tragedy.”
“Of course, our goal is not to provoke. Israel does not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of Lebanon,” the prime minister assured, speaking about the IDF operation in Lebanon.
He called Israel's only goal “to allow our citizens living along the border with Lebanon to return home and feel safe.”
It should be noted that Netanyahu did not specify what kind of Russian weapons were found in the Hezbollah tunnels. At the same time, on October 16, the Israeli military command published footage of a weapons depot in a civilian residential building in southern Lebanon. In the photo, among the Russian weapons, one can see, in particular, the Kornet ATGM and the Igla MANPADS, manufactured between 2018 and 2021.
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By the way, in early October in Syria, the Israeli army destroyed a batch of weapons with an airstrike that was being transported from Iran to terrorists through the Russian Khmeimim airbase “Hezbollah”.
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