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IDF troops bombing Hezbollah bunkers found on the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon on Friday. (Yaron Kaminsky)
Last update - 04:48 27/01/2007
IDF destroys 2 Hezbollah bunkers on Israeli side of Lebanon border
By Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent

Israel Defense Forces troops on Friday destroyed two Hezbollah bunkers discovered during searches in the area around the Lebanese border fence.

The IDF was combing the Katamon valley in the western part of the area surrounding the Lebanese border with Israel. One bunker had already been discovered during this summer's war, and the other was discovered on Wednesday.

The bunkers were both within Israel's territory, somewhere between the international border and the border fence. The bunkers housed supplies, food and tools that would enable a long stay underground.

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In a statement released Friday, the IDF spokesman's office said that the aim of the operation was to prevent Hezbollah from reclaiming the bunkers, and represents a shift in IDF methods around the border with Lebanon that are meant to strengthen the army's "defensive operational effectiveness."

Two weeks ago, the IDF unearthed a cache near the border of supplies that had been used in the abduction of IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Golwasser, which sparked the summer's war with Hezbollah.

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  1.   HIZBOLLAH BUNKERS 11:49  |  Russ 26/01/07
  2.   Where is UNIFIL? 12:18  |  Dean Newton 26/01/07
  3.   "Bombs" is the wrong choice of word 12:33  |  Clickfool 26/01/07
  4.   Proof that these were Hezbollah bunkers? 12:34  |  Stephen Murray 26/01/07
  5.   liars 12:35  |  mark 26/01/07
  6.   UN resolution re. HEZBOLLAH should be fulfilled. HEZB. re-arms. 12:53  |  Vittorio 26/01/07
  7.   # 3 click(fool) 12:57  |  Zuriel 26/01/07
  8.   # 4 13:01  |  Zuriel 26/01/07
  9.   bunkers 13:17  |  Rick 26/01/07
  10.   #3 Clickfool 13:25  |  Lynn 26/01/07
  11.   Hmmmmmmm 13:28  |  Marilyn 26/01/07
  12.   # 4 Stephen Murray 13:29  |  Lynn 26/01/07
  13.   # 6 Vittorio 13:32  |  Lynn 26/01/07
  14.   clickfools minmaization 13:35  |  Michael 26/01/07
  15.   How is that possible? 13:35  |  Dany 26/01/07
  16.   to 2 13:40  |  jean marie 26/01/07
  17.   to 6 13:44  |  jean marie 26/01/07
  18.   Stephen Murray: What do you care? 13:47  |  Yaron 26/01/07
  19.   what does hezbolla offer 13:48  |  bounce 26/01/07
  20.   PROOF? 13:49  |  Brant 26/01/07
  21.   #2 Dean Newton, huh???? 14:10  |  Johnboy 26/01/07
  22.   If the bunkers are in Israel 14:11  |  Chris Linthwaite 26/01/07
  23.   Brant, thanks for the laugh 14:27  |  lola 26/01/07
  24.   Vittorio the pasta man 14:57  |  Lebanese Communist 26/01/07
  25.   #6. You ask:"Hezbollah re-arms? Who says that?". HEZB SAYS 15:00  |  Vittorio 26/01/07
  26.   Stephen Murray is right 15:01  |  Richard S 26/01/07
  27.   Doesnt cease fire mean no attacking? 15:15  |  Mahdi 26/01/07
  28.   #3 Clickfools BOMB 15:15  |  * BEN JABO 26/01/07
  29.   #11 Marilyn`s hmmmmm 15:20  |  * BEN JABO 26/01/07
  30.   The End of Hizbollah 15:22  |  ScotGuy 26/01/07
  31.   To #17. You ask:"Hezbollah re-arms? Who says that?". HEZB SAYS 15:38  |  Vittorio 26/01/07
  32.   Stephen Murray #4 15:45  |  Gee 26/01/07
  33.   #4 Stephen Murray`s bunkers 16:00  |  * BEN JABO 26/01/07
  34.   bunkers, off sides 16:03  |  dr. zvoov 26/01/07
  35.   To Lebanese Communist 16:13  |  Yosi 26/01/07
  36.   What Does This Phrase Mean? 16:24  |  Rowan Berkeley 26/01/07
  37.   lectures from Australians??? 16:37  |  Alex 26/01/07
  38.   Hezbollah bunkers 16:42  |  Shmulik Epstein 26/01/07
  39.   dream 16:45  |  ali 26/01/07
  40.   Probably built by Israel in violation of peace ageements 16:47  |  Tim 26/01/07
  41.   From the "Ya Libnan" website 16:51  |  Yonatan 26/01/07
  42.   Ain`t It Grand? 17:05  |  Tex 26/01/07
  43.   Clickfool: 17:07  |  Tex 26/01/07
  44.   #4 Stephen Murray is suffering from 17:19  |  TOMY 26/01/07
  45.   #11 Marilyn again 17:25  |  TOMY 26/01/07
  46.   Rowan Berkeley #33 17:26  |  Gee 26/01/07
  47.   or built by Christian "peacekeepers" 17:35  |  Jesus H Christ 26/01/07
  48.   Lebanese communist 24. 17:38  |  David Nigel Braham 26/01/07
  49.   #33 Rowan Berkeley 17:41  |  * BEN JABO 26/01/07
  50.   #15 Dany - think NIGHT TIME 17:46  |  * BEN JABO 26/01/07
  51.   #22 Linthwaite 17:48  |  * BEN JABO 26/01/07
  52.   #37 Tim 17:54  |  * BEN JABO 26/01/07
  53.   Pathetic 17:58  |  Boss Hog 26/01/07
  54.   #3 Clickfool 18:07  |  Justin 26/01/07
  55.   Unifil? 18:09  |  Conor 26/01/07
  56.   Really now 18:23  |  Mike 26/01/07
  57.   For Justin, now out of the game # 47 18:24  |  Clickfool 26/01/07
  58.   bunkers 18:25  |  Gina 26/01/07
  59.   Conor #49 18:46  |  Gee 26/01/07
  60.   # 4 Stephen Murray @ Amsterdam , 19:00  |  Joseph E . 26/01/07
  61.   Mahdi 19:14  |  Lynn 26/01/07
  62.   # 17 Jean marie 19:17  |  Lynn 26/01/07
  63.   # 20 PROOF? 19:19  |  Lynn 26/01/07
  64.   Hezboolah bunkers under ex-unifil pensioners nose 19:21  |  Joseph E . 26/01/07
  65.   A total failure of Israeli military inteligence 19:22  |  David T. 26/01/07
  66.   same as Iran , Stephen Murray is conspiring 19:30  |  Joseph E . 26/01/07
  67.   #4 -- Stephen Murray 19:37  |  MichaelF 26/01/07
  68.   Austrailian Liberation Movement 19:56  |  powpow 26/01/07
  69.   Lebanese Pinko Commie re Vittorio 20:00  |  Dave 26/01/07
  70.   Regarding the Italian command of UNIFIL 20:03  |  Lorenzo 26/01/07
  71.   Iran pearls , Hezbollah, islamic Jihad , Hamas 20:19  |  Joseph E . 26/01/07
  72.   adding to my previous post 20:33  |  Lorenzo 26/01/07
  73.   So they just let the enemy bunkers just stay there meanwhile ?!?! 20:40  |  amir 26/01/07
  74.   Italian UNIFIL peacekeepers 20:40  |  MW 26/01/07
  75.   IDF 21:03  |  EL Madrid 26/01/07
  76.   IDF 21:15  |  Eliezer A. Yanson 26/01/07
  77.   to Lebanese Communist #24 21:28  |  bee 26/01/07
  78.   GOOD QUESTION???? 21:28  |  CHARLES 26/01/07
  79.   to MW 21:30  |  Lorenzo 26/01/07
  80.   So it is ok for Israel to build on others soil? 22:53  |  Mahdi 26/01/07
  81.   peace by peace bunker by bunker 22:55  |  palestine hawk 26/01/07
  82.   #11, probably in the six years Israel ignored them 23:25  |  Danny - Israeli one 26/01/07
  83.   It was wrong to destroy the bunkers 23:54  |  Absolute Sweden 26/01/07
  84.   Iranian weapons 00:08  |  Philip 27/01/07
  85.   Woooowe...You guys are brave 01:11  |  Ali 27/01/07
  86.   Murray madness 01:21  |  Star of David 27/01/07
  87.   Bunker bombed 01:23  |  Star of David 27/01/07
  88.   Absolut Sweden: absolute rot 01:25  |  Star of David 27/01/07
  89.   #74 MW 01:56  |  Lynn