Senior official: There’s a real possibility we will be forced to act inside Lebanon

In a visit to the north amid the army’s operation to destroy Hezbollah attack tunnels on the Israeli side of the border, a senior Israeli official says that “there’s a reasonable possibility that we will have to act inside Lebanon.”

The official adds that the tunnel operation was among the reasons IDF didn’t launch major offensive against Hamas in Gaza last month.

“The tunnels are wider and their purpose is for transferring entire battalions or large amounts of forces into Israel to carry out killing sprees, kidnappings and conquer (Israeli) towns,” the official says.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the offensive will see the destruction of every tunnel Hezbollah has dug into Israel, substantially crippling the terror group’s ability to act against the Jewish state.