“The weapons you see here have been stored in Hezbollah bunkers on the front line for more than a year. We know about it, we saw it and now we take it and make sure Hezbollah won’t be able to use those arms,” a soldier at the Julis army base explained.

Pointing to a weapons barrel, the soldier said it was found pointed at an army outpost. “The rest of the weaponry was for breaking the fence. Really just a few hundred meters from the fence, posing a real threat, and we erased this threat.”

“Here’s an Iranian-made launcher known as Tosan,” an anti-tank missile with a range of four km. “Here are its rockets found in a village controlled by Hezbollah.

Iranian-made anti-personnel mines “found in big quantities” inside Lebanon and ready to use. Many of the mines were found in bags with an indicator of humidity. “Everything was ready at a very very high level.”

Other weapons seized included anti-tank mines, rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and fake rocks with explosives hidden inside.

Sarit Zahavi, president and founder of the Alma Research Center, told The Press Service of Israel in August that Hezbollah doctrine makes extensive use of civilian homes, where many more weapons, including ballistic missiles, are kept.

“Hezbollah stores their weapons everywhere, both between villages and within the villages themselves,” she said.