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)