VIDEO / IDF film shows 'Hezbollah evacuating illegal arms from Lebanon blast site'
Israeli drone video apparently shows militants removing missiles from south Lebanon village after huge explosion on Friday.
By Anshel Pfeffer Tags: Israel news Lebanon IDF HezbollahThe army on Sunday released video footage of an explosion that tore through a building in southern Lebanon on Friday – with pictures apparently showing rockets and weapons stored by Hezbollah militants in contravention of a United Nations resolution.
The new Israel Defense Forces film, shot from an unmanned drone aircraft ,shows the aftermath of the blast, which ripped through a three-story building on in the Shi'ite Muslim village of Shehabiyeh Friday lunchtime, wounding at least five.
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Exchange of fire on the border between Israel and Lebanon - August 3, 2010 |
| Photo by: Reuters / Karamallah Daher |
Israeli intelligence officers have long seen the village, which lies south of the River Litani, as a nerve center for Hezbollah operations and the building destroyed by the explosion is believed to belong to the armed group, which fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006.
UN Security Council resolution 1701, signed in the aftermath of the 2006 war, forbids Hezbollah from storing any arms south of the river.
The explosion blew away part of the roof of the building, without damaging most of what appears to be a weapons cache stored there. Following the blast, dozens of people can be seen apparently covering building's exposed contents with canvas, before removing weapons from the building.
Some of the equipment was removed soon after the blast to two nearby villages, with the remainder transfered under the cover of darkness to a mosque in the Nabatiyeh area north of the Litani, which Israeli intelligence officers say also functions as a "significant" military base, the IDF said.
According to Israeli intelligence officials, who say they were aware of the arms cache before Friday's explosion, weapons stored at the building included 107mm short-range rockets and longer-range 122mm rockets.
The blast was the third at Hezbollah storage facilities in 15 months. Lebanese press reports blamed Israel for all three explosions.
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IDF proves it violates the same UN resolution Hezbollah does. How droll.
Everybody already know hezbullah has stuffed every town in South-Lebanon with rockets, missiles, anti-everything stunners, you name it. So, what is the news?
...".....Hezbo is just moving a family to a new house. These are all Israeli lies; these are no weapons but furniture, boxes and home applicance ......"
First of all, the quality in this movie is so bad that you can only recognize moving people and vehicles. Second, why would the assumed arms be illegal? 108 countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, 38 of them have already ratified it. Two countries are notorious for their absence in this honorable list: the USA and Israel.
Nobody likes a tattle tale
when the idf has a video that shows more than random people driving cars, let us know. thanks.
UN Security Council resolution 1701, signed in the aftermath of the 2006 war, forbids Hezbollah from storing any arms south of the river. (But gives the right to Israeli planes and fighters to cross to the Lebanese side whenever they want )…Funny
IDF should have bombed the entire area
Israel has not even begun a peace process and these problems already. Israel faces enemies on multiple levels and fighting them will not resolve these . Hopefully this new peace process will bring positive results so that the other problems can be resolved too. One way to resolve this is to give stolen land back or pay the people who were put out from there.
with a "Pal State" ans supervising Jlem
maybe the same kind of low flying drone they used on 911 to change the Pentagon into a triangle.
That you think Israel is capable of it, I'm afraid you need to wear this tinfoil hat and the attached antenna for your personal protection.
funny stuff
Both sides have violated it on a regular basis. I thoght that every body was over this and had moved on.
The problem with you Natallie is that you are incapable of thinking. You expertiese lies in Israel bashing no matter who is at fault. Your ignorance is showing.
HEZBALLAH's presence south of the Littani. Lebanonaccepted UN resolution also and agreed to dismantle the HEZBALLAH military. Now it is obvious that neither LABS not HEZBS should be trusted. Be careful, LEBS: your attitude towards HEZBALLAH will bring a destruction of LEBANON (in case of war).
Does the UN need more proof?
Hezbollah is the agressor as this article shows and is preparing actively for war which will destroy Lebanon as they are part of the Lebanese government and as a result any war action by Hezbollah is considered a war action by Lebanon. Sad that the clear serious breach of the UN resolution is ignored by the international press and shows bias and anti semitism when we compare this to the unimportant action by the IDF against the flotillas.
They also blamed Israel that the sun shone in the sky.
Of course Israel used cluster bombs, on the field of battle. Hezbollah, on the other hand, fired missiles deep into Israel without a care about where they landed or who they killed.
Israel won't be shy from blowing Mosques who are known to function as military bases. Those terrorists brought prayer sites to the equation. I'm wondering, because in a book I read, one of the fights took place near a Mosque from which RPGs were fired, yet no air strike or artillery was called on it.
good job hezbollah keep arming urself! i'm wondering why the UN doesn't inspect israel's nuclear abilities... I'm wondering from when Israel started to care about the International resolutions? and if yes why it didn't execute none of the security council resolutions? resolution 194 resolution 242 resolution 425 (shebaa farms) and many others. Israel (occupied Palestine) is breaking the resolution 1701 on daily basis .. we won't negotiate on our right of defending our country we won't make any concession!
resolution 181, 22 Nov 1947: the first one on the subject, rejected by ALL the Arab existing countries and yet unborn Palestinian organisations. Dear talkbacker, aren't you afraid that when you congratulate an Iranian prowy your nickname could sound as an oxymore?
and that's the point. The my daddy's bigger than yours argument just makes you look infantile.
Israeli violation of resolution 1701
Still, not a word from the UN or Obama..
If true, this footage is also contravening UN resolution 1701 as it forbids the IAF (Israeli Attack Forces?) from overflying Lebanese territory. OK, OK, I know the notion of "borders" is not so clear to Israelis, but still...
Since the UN forces don.t do their job, then obviously Israel has to take matters in their hands....
Lebanon is a country that is being threatened by a much larger more powerful country. It needs all the weapons it can get...
Where are the UN resolutions asking why or why not these weapons were there in the first place And amnesty international and the other wonderful ngos this will all end with crying