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Explosion in Hezbollah weapons depot – Israel News, Ynetnews.

Lebanese media reports of mysterious blast in Tair Harfa, town near Israel border. Hezbollah cordons off area

AP, Roi Kais

Lebanon‘s state agency has reported a large explosion in the country’s south near the border with Israel. The blast hit a Hezbollah weapons cache.

National News said early Monday the reasons behind the blast near Tair Harfa were not clear. Andrea Tenente, who is a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force in the area, UNIFIL, said it was investigating.

South Lebanon, the scene of bitter fighting between Israel and Lebanese militant Hezbollah guerrillas in 2006, is considered a Hezbollah stronghold.

Security officials said Hezbollah had cordoned off the area. They asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly.

Some two months ago, a series of blasts killed at least nine people and wounded seven in the Hezbollah-controlled Beqaa Valley of eastern Lebanon.

The Shiite terror group announced that three of its members were killed and a few others were injured in the blasts, which hit an arms stockpile in a building under construction in an uninhabited area between the villages of Nabishit and Khodr.

Last July, an air-to-ground missile fired by an Israeli plane detonated a surveillance device that was planted between the southern Lebanese towns of Zrariyeh and Tayr Filsay.

According to the report, the device was planted on a Hezbollah telecommunications cable. The device was destroyed by Israel because the terror group had exposed it, the National News Agency reported.

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