Netanyahu says Lebanon's Hezbollah plans to occupy part of northern Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) delivers televised remarks at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Dec. 4, 2018. Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia dug a cross-border tunnel in order to occupy part of northern Israel. Netanyahu's comments came after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched earlier Tuesday an open-ended operation to locate and destroy the Hezbollah-built tunnels crossing from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. (Xinhua/JINI/Nimrod Glikman)