THE Israeli military has saturation air coverage over south Lebanon with missile-firing reconnaissance drones, Apache helicopter gunships and F16 fighter-bombers. It is attacking its Hezbollah enemy with multiple airstrikes and heavy artillery bombardments from land and sea, as well as raids by Israeli special forces units.

Yet Hezbollah squads are still firing dozens of rockets a day into Israel from locations just a few hundred yards from the border and within full view of the Israeli military.

One such position lies between the villages of Naqoura and Alma Shaab.

The rocky, uninhabited hillside and deep ravine of 19sqkm is covered in dense undergrowth and Hezbollah, over the past three years, has made use of it to establish an unseen but clearly formidable military infrastructure of weapons depots, tunnels and bunkers.