{"id":1484172,"date":"2024-08-16T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1484172"},"modified":"2024-08-16T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T02:50:00","slug":"watch-hezbollah-reveals-massive-underground-missile-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/watch-hezbollah-reveals-massive-underground-missile-base\/1484172\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch:\u00a0Hezbollah Reveals Massive Underground Missile Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Watch:\u00a0Hezbollah Reveals Massive Underground Missile Base<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The massive tunnel network underneath the Gaza Strip used by Hamas has long been known about, as has Iran&#8217;s deep underground missile silos which defend the Islamic Republic&#8217;s most sensitive military equipment from potential airstrikes, but much lesser known is Hezbollah&#8217;s network of tunnels under southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Hezbollah on Friday published new video featuring\u00a0a<strong> highly secretive underground facility<\/strong> from which its tens of thousands of missiles can be launched and stored. The location appears to be a mountainous area, given that the video is titled <a href=\"https:\/\/thecradle.co\/articles\/hezbollah-reveals-massive-underground-base-reminds-israel-retaliation-imminent\">according<\/a> to a translation, <strong>&#8220;Our mountains are our storage sites.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hezbtunnels.png?itok=2-3fqRpW\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah is calling the secret site &#8220;Imad-4&#8221; &#8211; after a commander who was killed by Israel in 2008, and it has passage ways that appear in some areas to be at least two stories high, or big enough to drive large military trucks through.<\/p>\n<p>Lengthy tunnels and corridors are showcased in the video, through which <strong>trucks with missile launch pads are seen moving<\/strong>, as well as smaller combat vehicles like motorcycles or armored carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile rocket launch vehicles can apparently fire from out of the bunker when a tunnel entrance opens up. The video and messaging is intended to spook Israel as the potential for a broader war looms.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.almayadeen.net\/news\/politics\/%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%81-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%A3%D8%A9--%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF-4--%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6---%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%81\">Al Mayadeen<\/a>\u00a0suggested that it is not the only underground site, but that <strong>others exist<\/strong>. The publication wrote that\u00a0Hezbollah &#8220;is not afraid to go to war, and is prepared for it if [Israel] decides to go too far in escalation and aggression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The capabilities of the Islamic Resistance, especially missiles, are fully prepared to defend Lebanon \u2026 the secrecy of the site allows Hezbollah\u2019s missile capabilities to be <strong>immune from any preemptive Israeli strikes<\/strong>,&#8221;\u00a0Al Mayadeen continued.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Iran has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/16\/iran-reveals-underground-missile-city-as-regional-tensions-rise.html\">long had its own underground<\/a> <strong>&#8216;missile cities&#8217; <\/strong>which it showcases from time to time, it is likely that Iranian advisers led the way in helping to construct Hezbollah&#8217;s tunnels.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch Hezbollah&#8217;s nearly 5-minute long video below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch | Hezbollah publishes a new video titled &#8220;Our mountains are our stores,&#8221; displaying the Lebanese Resistance&#8217;s vast underground tunnels and missile store named the \u201cImad 4 facility&#8221; after former commander Imad Mughniyeh.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has only used a limited amount of its\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e7S7vNnqYb\">pic.twitter.com\/e7S7vNnqYb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCradleMedia\/status\/1824368443753144348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Gaza Strip, it has been precisely Hamas&#8217; use of literally hundreds of miles of underground tunnels which has allowed it to survive the Israeli onslaught. Small guerilla teams can strike Israeli convoys and then rapidly retreat back to the tunnels. Israel says it has thus far killed at least 17,000 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, but there are believed to still be many thousands more.<\/p>\n<p>Given that most war analysts consider Hezbollah&#8217;s capabilities to be superior to Hamas&#8217;, Israel would likely have an even tougher up-hill battle if it eventually invades southern Lebanon in an effort to destroy or degrade the Shia paramilitary force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 08\/16\/2024 &#8211; 18:50<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/watch-hezbollah-reveals-massive-underground-missile-base\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/watch-hezbollah-reveals-massive-underground-missile-base<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch:\u00a0Hezbollah Reveals Massive Underground Missile Base The massive tunnel network underneath the Gaza Strip used by Hamas has long been known about, as has Iran&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1484173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}