Hezbollah demands return of border rail tunnel
Minister aligned with terror group says passage, closed since Israel’s creation in 1948, is Lebanon’s sovereign territory; remark seen as trying to complicate maritime negotiations.
Newsrael News Desk 19.07.2022
Dug in 1941 by the British rulers, the 695-meters-long tunnel was part of a rail system that once linked Egypt to Turkey, passing through British Mandate Palestine and Lebanon. It has been closed since Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. In 2000, when Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon, it filled the Lebanese exit with concrete while the tunnel remained under Israeli control as a closed military zone.
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