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

An Israeli digger works on the border with Lebanon near the northern Israeli town of Metula, Dec. 4, 2018. Israeli Prime Minister 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/Ayal Margolin)