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BEIRUT: United Nations peacekeepers said on Tuesday they had found around four tonnes of mainly ammonium nitrate explosives this month in a south Lebanon border village under Israeli occupation.
During a “routine route check” near Hula on July 2, “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 said the containers had Hebrew writing on them and were “likely used for demolitions”.
