These were not fireworks:
A series of explosions on Friday ripped through a house said to be serving as an arms depot in south Lebanon, an area considered a Hizbullah stronghold, state-run National News Agency said. It said the blasts were in a three-storey building that was being used as an arms warehouse on the outskirts of the town of Shehabiyeh, just south of the Litani River, an area under surveillance of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
Don’t expect to learn more details about this anytime soon. Hezbollah members are said to be preventing journalists from approaching the place and both the Army and UNIFIL sound clueless.
The explosions could be caused by the heat or by a covert Israeli operation, but in both cases the Israelis are going to jump on this as proof that Lebanon is not keeping its end of UNSCR 1701 and that the UNIFIL is an ineffective body.
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Yeah those explosions make me perplex. It is really weird how that type of problem seems to only happen to Hezbollah, and apparently only South of the Litani . I mean, the Lebanese Army has presumably been storing ammunition for years all over the Lebanese territory, and such a problem never happened to the Army . Also I don’t remember those problems happened to the Syrian Army when it was in Lebanon. Quite frankly this is puzzling. I don’t know if the storage conditions are particularly poor in South Lebanon, but I don’t think so, they seemed to have full control of the building and the area so nothing prevented them from building appropriate facilities.
It is possible that this is the result of sabotage, either by Israel or another party. If it is so, then the calm in the South would seem extremely fragile.
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