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Imad 4 - Hezbollah Base Beneath the Tahr Ridge near Nabatieh, where IDF soldier killed during ongoing action
2026-06-21

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🔴Imad 4 - Hezbollah Base Beneath the Tahr Ridge 🔴
In 2024, Hezbollah unveiled one of its missile cities and the headquarters of the Nasser Unit - Imad 4 (named after Imad Mughniyeh)

The ridge features vast tunnel networks carved into the rock, spanning several kilometers, allowing entry for large trucks and vehicles, and serving as a full underground military base.

The base includes capabilities for launching medium- and long-range missiles. It also has a field hospital, operating rooms, sleeping quarters, weapons storage. Advanced ventilation systems enabling prolonged stays underground, full logistical facilities, and command structures.

The facility was built over 12 years with funding from the Revolutionary Guards. Israel has attempted to strike the ridge over 300 times with bunker-busting bombs without success.

Israel's primary goal is to destroy the tunnels and the missile capabilities stored in Imad 4, and to remove the threat to the Galilee.

Control of the ridge will sever a large portion of Hezbollah's missile capabilities and deliver a severe morale blow to Hezbollah and Iran.

IDF soldier killed, 13 injured in overnight Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon
[IsraelTimes] Sgt. First Class Nir Ben Ari is killed amid effort to capture terror group’s ‘strategic’ underground facility beneath Ali Taher ridge; 2 more troops killed in Friday incident named

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 during an attack by the Hezbollah terror group early Saturday morning.

The slain soldier was named as Sgt. First Class Nir Ben Ari, 21, of the Commando Brigade’s Maglan unit, from Kerem Maharal. He was killed amid operations to capture a major underground Hezbollah facility beneath the Ali Taher ridge. The IDF said Saturday it "halted its fire" outside its declared "security zone" in southern Lebanon, but would continue operations within it, including the ridge.

According to a military probe, at around 1:30 a.m., a barrage of rockets and an explosive drone struck a military position in the Nabatieh-area village of Kfar Tebnit. The Iran-backed terror group’s projectiles killed Ben Ari and maimed 13 other troops, including two at death's door, one moderately and 10 who were lightly hurt. The troops were taken to a hospital, and their families were notified.

Following the deadly attack, the IDF carried out strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in the Nabatieh area.

The attack came after four soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah attack on a tank in southern Lebanon early Friday morning, also amid operations to capture the facility beneath Ali Taher. In that attack, Lt. Col. Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon, 32, the commander of the 52nd Battalion, and three members of his crew were killed after a drone or anti-tank missile struck their tank. Staff Sgt. Yoav Klein, 21, from Herzliya, and Staff Sgt. Liav Kababia, 20, from Hod Hasharon, were identified by the military on Saturday as two of the slain soldiers. The name of the fourth soldier killed in the attack has not yet been published, but was expected to be released by the military soon.

A military probe has determined that, contrary to several media reports, the tank was hit by Hezbollah fire, and the blast was not the cause of a malfunction. The IDF believes the tank was struck by an anti-tank guided missile or a drone carrying an anti-tank warhead.

The IDF has assessed that Hezbollah has a major "strategic" underground facility beneath the Ali Taher ridge, which is located near Nabatieh. According to the military, the underground site is the "nerve center" of Hezbollah’s Badr regional division. According to the military, dozens of Hezbollah operatives remain holed up underground in the area, and fighting has taken place above and below ground in recent days. The ridge was originally not included in the military’s security zone in southern Lebanon, but on Thursday the IDF published an updated map of the "forward defense area," which now includes Ali Taher, along with the Majdal Zoun area.

After the Hezbollah attacks that killed the IDF troops, Israel carried out a wave of strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon overnight and into Saturday afternoon. The terror group, violating a ceasefire, had launched more than 175 projectiles at Israeli troops in southern Lebanon over the past day, according to Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter.

Israel’s retaliatory strikes killed at least 27 people and maimed at least 26, first responders and Lebanese media reported.

The IDF said Saturday it had "halted its fire" outside its declared "security zone" in southern Lebanon, in accordance with instructions from the politicianship, but would continue its operations within the zone.

The weekend fighting came after the US and Iran
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signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday, in which the Islamic Theocratic Republic agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and the US to lift its blockade on Iranian ships and ports.

On Saturday, days after the strait was reopened, Iran’s central military command claimed to have once again closed it, saying the IDF strikes in southern Lebanon violated the agreement. The US military, however, denied the strait was shuttered, saying it remained open and that US forces were monitoring the situation to ensure that continued.

Israel was not part of the negotiating process leading up to the MoU, nor was it a signatory to the agreement; however, the memorandum purported to obligate both the US "and its allies" to "an immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon."

Hezbollah fired 176 projectiles at IDF troops in southern Lebanon over past day, Israeli envoy to US says
[IsraelTimes] In the past day, Hezbollah fired 176 projectiles at Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter says on X.

Leiter lists a dozen villages in southern Lebanon from which he says Hezbollah fired the rockets at Israeli forces overnight.

“Kfar Sir, Al-Zaharani, Khirbat a-Dwir, Tufakhta, Mazraat a-Daudia, Tul, Kharouf, Jouaiyya, Kfar Riman, Kfar Fila, Joubaa, Mazraat a-Kamata, Kharet a-Nabbaa. These are all villages in southern Lebanon,†Leiter writes.

“Hezbollah fired 50 rockets at Israeli troops overnight – all from these villages,†he says.

According to Leiter, Hezbollah fired 147 rockets, 20 drones, and 9 anti-tank missiles at Israeli troops “in 24 hours.â€

“Hezbollah are terrorists. Hezbollah lies. Hezbollah is Iran’s long arm and they don’t want a cease fire,†he adds.
Hamas invaded on 10/7 to prevent Saudi Arabia going forward with its version of the Abraham Accords with Israel. It worked — the Saudis are no longer interested in their indignation about Israel’s response.

4 killed in Israeli airstrike in Beqaa Valley, Lebanese media reports
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese media reports four dead in an Israeli airstrike in the Beqaa Valley. According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, the strike in the town of Sohmor hit a home, killing four and injuring one.

“A child is still under the rubble and rescue teams are working to extract him,†NNA reports.

7 killed, 13 wounded in Israeli airstrike in Qennarit, near Sidon
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese media reports seven killed and 13 wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the town of Qennarit, near Sidon. Earlier it was reported that 16 people had been killed in IDF strikes targeting Hezbollah in south Lebanon.

Lebanese army says soldier killed in IDF strike, charges Israel obstructing efforts to restore stability
At the wrong place at the wrong time or Hezbully cadre drawing two paychecks, like we see so often with Hamasniks?
[IsraelTimes] The Lebanese army says an Israeli strike killed one of its soldiers in the country’s south, despite a new ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah reached yesterday.

“An Israeli enemy strike targeted an army soldier on the Kfar Rumman-Nabatieh road, leading to his martyrdom,†an army statement says, charging that “the continuation of brutal Israeli attacks aims to obstruct any solution that would allow for restoring stability in Lebanon.â€

There is no comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
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