Those Shehabiyeh Explosions

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.