BEIRUT: UN peacekeepers said Tuesday they had 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) said 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 told AFP on condition of anonymity that the containers had Hebrew writing on them and were “likely used for demolitions.”
Hula is part of a strip of territory running around 10 kilometers (six miles) deep inside Lebanon along the border where Israeli forces, who invaded during the latest war with Hezbollah, have been operating and have warned residents not to return.
