“HAPPY NEW YEAR!” Netanyahu Celebrates as IDF Obliterates Hezbollah’s Massive Ali Taher Tunnel Fortress, Causing a 4.1-Magnitude Tremor — Calls It “Largest Iranian Outpost Outside Iran”

השמדנו הלילה את המוצב האיראני הגדול ביותר מחוץ לאיראן - מנהרות עלי טאהר בלבנון.

משלימים את המשימה. שנה טובה! pic.twitter.com/xbDGu7Fhyf

— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) September 10, 2026

 

“Tonight we destroyed the largest Iranian outpost outside of Iran — Ali Taher tunnels in Lebanon. Completing the mission. Happy New Year!”

That’s how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked the Jewish New Year on Thursday night.

He posted the message in Hebrew on X along with thermal footage of massive explosions ripping through the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon. The blast was so powerful it registered as a 4.1-magnitude tremor.

The Ali Taher Ridge is located within Israel’s southern Lebanon buffer zone, near Nabatieh. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the tunnel systems under Ali Taher served as the “nerve center” of the terror group’s Badr regional division — a unit tasked with the area of southern Lebanon that is north of the Litani River.

A massive blast was heard throughout the region as the IDF demolished the two tunnel routes under the hill with 1,100 tons of explosives. Footage showed a massive fireball erupting above the mountain. Seismic systems also detected the explosion as a 4.1-magnitude earthquake, the United States Geological Survey said.

The IDF described the facility as a “strategic infrastructure that was built over two decades,” an activity it said was financed and planned by Iran. Dozens of Hezbollah operatives were believed to be holed up under Ali Taher when a new ceasefire took effect in June.

Inside the two tunnels — spanning over two kilometers — troops found dozens of Iranian-made rockets, missiles and drones, along with firearms, anti-tank missiles, and hundreds of mines and other explosives, the military said.