Netanyahu confirms attacks on Iranian targets in Syria

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Sunday that Israel has struck hundreds of Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Syria, including a weapons facility in a weekend air strike, as the military announced the discovery of a sixth and final tunnel dug by the Lebanese militant group for cross-border attacks.

The statements marked a rare, public acknowledgment of Israeli attacks against Hezbollah and its patron Iran in neighboring Syria, where Israel is long believed to have targeted Iranian weapons shipments to the Lebanese Shiite group.

Israel, however, has until now generally refrained from commenting about the strikes for fear of causing a reaction and being drawn into the deadly fighting in neighboring Syria’s civil war.