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Tuesday, July 28, 2026
UNIFIL troops neutralize 4 tons of explosives likely left by Israel in south Lebanon village
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UN peacekeepers say they found around four tons of mainly ammonium nitrate explosives this month in a south Lebanon border village under Israeli occupation.
On July 2, during a “routine route check” near Hula, “peacekeepers found 385 containers abandoned inside a building, containing approximately 4,000 kilograms of explosive material, consisting mainly of ammonium nitrate compounds,” the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says in a statement.
UNIFIL specialists “later carried out on-site procedures to render the material inert, making it safe and removing the risk it posed.”
A source with knowledge of the matter tells AFP on condition of anonymity that the containers had Hebrew writing on them and were “likely used for demolitions.”
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency has reported Israeli detonations in Hula on four occasions this month.
On July 8, the Hula municipality condemned “in the strongest terms the crimes the Israeli enemy is carrying out of burning, blowing up and destroying homes, public buildings and private property.”
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