The Israel Defense Forces reported on November 8, 2026, that troops operating in southern Lebanon uncovered two weapons and equipment stockpiles and an apartment used by Hezbollah for military purposes near United Nations posts. In the border town of Mais al Jabal, the 9th Oded Reserve Brigade Combat Team located two stockpiles: one inside a civilian residence approximately 200 meters from a UN post, and another inside a storage facility approximately 100 meters from a UN post. The combined inventory included rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and rockets, a machine gun, grenades, an explosive device, ammunition, and communications and surveillance equipment, found alongside Hezbollah and Amal emblems.
Separately, in the southern Lebanese village of Al Tiri, the 91st Division’s Kfir Brigade Combat Team found an apartment approximately 250 meters from a UN post that the Israeli military said Hezbollah used for military purposes. Troops found surveillance equipment, combat gear, living supplies, and Hezbollah emblems inside.
The discoveries add to a documented history, predating the 2006 Lebanon War, of Hezbollah maintaining military positions, tunnels, weapons facilities, and launch sites near UNIFIL positions, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reported. In previous documentation cited by the foundation, Green Without Borders—an ostensibly “environmental” organization later designated by the U.S. Treasury Department as a Hezbollah front—installed structures near a UNIFIL post in Houla in 2023, serving as a cover organization whose outposts concealed underground weapons warehouses and munitions-storage tunnels.