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The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (FINL) accused this Monday the Israeli Army for having dropped a bomb from planes unknown chemical substance in several areas of the south of that country.
This complaint comes after similar incidents were reported last week in the southern region of neighboring Syria.
According to UNIFIL in a statement, Israeli forces informed them on Sunday that they were going to release “a non-toxic chemical substance” over areas near the de facto border between both countries, as part of “an aerial activity.”
“The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that peacekeepers were to stay away and stay under cover, which forced them to cancel more than a dozen activities,” denounced the international mission, adding that the stoppage affected almost a third of the dividing line for more than nine hours.
UNIFIL, which later helped the Lebanese Army collect samples to check whether the chemical was toxic, described Israel’s action as “unacceptable” and warned that could put at risk both the health of its soldiers and that of civilians present in the region.
For her part, the Lebanese Minister of the Environment, Tamara el Zeinhas ordered the collection of samples by the Lebanese military after incidents were reported in the town of Aita al Shaab and others nearby, according to statements collected by the National News Agency (ANN).
He whichfrom the Shiite Amal party, an ally of Hezbollahstated that he will not be surprised if the samples collected confirm toxicity and recalled that Israel already burned some 9,000 hectares of land in Lebanon during the war using the controversial white phosphorus, as well as incendiary weapons.