"Overnight, our troops thwarted the largest smuggling attempt in the last few years on the Lebanon-Israel Border. IDF troops & the Israeli Police spotted the smuggling attempt and confiscated 43 guns worth 2,700,000 [shekels, or $826,808]," the IDF tweeted.
In a separate statement, the IDF said it was investigating whether the illegal delivery of weapons was organised with the help of the Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia Islamist group. In the past, weapons smuggled from Lebanon to Israel have been used for terrorist activities, some of them linked to Hezbollah, the IDF noted.