Israel begins destroying Hezbollah tunnels: army

The Israeli army on Thursday night began destroying cross-border tunnels dug by Hezbollah, it said, more than two weeks after announcing their discovery on the frontier with Lebanon."The neutralisation and destruction phase of the cross-border attack tunnels... has begun," the army said in a statement.Since launching an operation to cut off the tunnels on December 4, the army says it has located four underground passageways infiltrating Israeli territory.