The Israeli army announced that it had destroyed what it described as Hezbollah's "largest tunnel" in the town of Qantara in southern Lebanon, revealing in a statement details of what it called "cities of refuge" within an infrastructure network in southern Lebanon, according to its claim. According to the statement, the forces found two tunnels with a total length of approximately two kilometers and at a distance of about 10 kilometers from the border, and considered them part of a network of tunnels that had been constructed over a period of about a decade and at a depth of tens of meters, with Iranian support, as he put it. He pointed out that the tunnels include accommodation and preparation rooms, water tanks, and equipment that allows for long-term stays, in addition to quantities of weapons. About 10 bedrooms equipped with beds were also found in one of them, as well as vertical openings linking the tunnels to sites containing launching pads directed toward the Israeli interior. The bombing was preceded by an unusual warning issued by the Israeli army to residents of the northern regions, calling on them to stay inside homes, open part of the windows, and stay away from glass facades, with the expectation of a large explosion. After the forces entered the tunnel and booby-trapped it, the explosion was carried out around six in the evening, causing a strong tremor that was recorded in the area and felt by the residents of the south, amid tremors that spread over a wide area. Israeli reports indicated that the bombing operation in Qantara was carried out using about 570 tons of explosives, in one of the largest operations of this kind. This operation comes within what the Israeli army calls “Operation Arrows of the North,” which it said also included the destruction of similar structures in the areas of Rab al-Talatheen and Mays al-Jabal, in light of the continued escalation on the southern front.