A week after the Second Lebanon War erupted in the summer of 2006, soldiers from the IDF’s elite Egoz antiguerrilla unit were dispatched to the northern border.
Rumors of the secret underground passageways Hizbullah had built following the withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 and of the advanced Iranian-supplied surveillance equipment and weaponry had spread like wildfire throughout the IDF over the years. The response was meant to be Egoz, a unit that operates under the Golani Brigade, with a declared expertise in guerrilla warfare."
