Israel spying devices found by UN
BBC News
20 Ottobre 2009
Israeli spying devices that were planted during the
2006 war with Hezbollah have been discovered in southern Lebanon, the
UN has said.
UN peacekeepers discovered the buried devices when they were blown up by remote control by Israel on Sunday.
Lebanese
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora accused Israel of blatantly violating the
UN Security Council resolution that led to the end of fighting.
Israel has declined to comment directly on the matter.
Mr
Siniora said an Israeli plane flying above peacekeepers and Lebanese
troops investigating the blasts constituted further violation of the
resolution.
The incident comes at a time of increased tension between the Lebanese authorities and Israel.
Earlier
in October the Israeli army released a video which it said showed
Hezbollah removing munitions from the scene of an explosion near the
city of Tyre.
Under the same UN Security Council resolution,
there should be no weapons south of the Litani river except in the
hands of regular Lebanese forces and peacekeepers.
Hezbollah subsequently broadcast its own video which it said disproved the claims.
It also says overflights by Israeli spy-planes violate the resolution.
The
war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006 lasted 33-days during which
time Hezbollah fired a hail of rockets into Israel and the Israelis
bombed carried out a huge bombing campaign across Lebanon and a large
ground incursion.
More than 1,125 Lebanese died during the conflict, as well as 119 Israeli soldiers and 40 Israeli civilians.
Israel made little headway in ground operations and the war ended inconclusively with Hezbollah's military wing largely intact.
The
UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1701 (2006) calling
for the end of hostilities, the demilitarisation of the south of
Lebanon and a mandate for a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to
oversee the implementation of the resolution.
Source > BBC , oct 19
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