A Hezbollah operative who emerged from the terror group’s underground facility at the Ali Taher ridge in southern Lebanon was killed in an airstrike, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday.

The military said troops of the Egoz Commando Unit spotted a Hezbollah operative emerging from one of the tunnel shafts on the ridge, which is located inside the IDF’s south Lebanon security zone.

“The terrorist posed an immediate threat to our forces,” the IDF said, adding that the Israeli Air Force struck “and eliminated the terrorist to remove the threat.”

The IDF said it continues to operate at the Ali Taher ridge, beneath which Hezbollah has a massive underground complex, where some 30 operatives are holed up. The military said it will “not allow Hezbollah terrorists to exit the underground tunnel network or move in the area of the ridge.”

Also on Thursday, the IDF said sirens that sounded in the Lebanon border communities of Yiron and Avivim were false alarms.

The alerts were triggered by a “false identification.”

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