JERUSALEM (VINnews) – Israeli combat engineers blew up a 140-meter (459-foot) Hezbollah attack tunnel in southern Lebanon on Thursday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The elite Yahalom unit used 24 tons of explosives to raze the tunnel, which was located in the Ras al-Bayada headland south of the coastal city of Tyre, the military said.

Troops discovered numerous weapons inside the tunnel along with rooms where Hezbollah operatives would reside, according to the IDF. The military described the tunnel as one that had been “recently used by Hezbollah terrorists” to advance attacks against Israel.

Separately, the IDF said it struck several Hezbollah operatives and targeted infrastructure in the western sector of southern Lebanon over the past day.

The operations come amid ongoing efforts by Israeli forces to dismantle Hezbollah’s cross-border attack capabilities following months of fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border.