Lebanon has filed a complaint with the United Nations that accuses Israel of planting “spying devices” and then detonating them. Officials accused Israel of violating UN Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War.
The complaint states that two devices exploded on Friday near the city of Tyre, on the south of Lebanon's coast. The blast lightly wounded two workers.
Hizbullah claimed that the devices were located by members of its counter-spy unit. It did not give details of the kind of devices found, or of their alleged links to Israel. Israel did not comment on the accusation.
The Lebanese army charged Israel with having planted the devices in order to carry out illegal surveillance in Hizbullah-dominated southern Lebanon. The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said it is investigating the incident.
Lebanon is facing political turmoil over the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon's probe into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The tribunal is thought to be preparing to implicate senior members of Hizbullah, the pro-Syrian Shiite Muslim terrorist group that is now part of the coalition government led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Rafik Hariri's son.
Lebanon has allowed HIzbullah to rearm to a level much greater than before the Second Lebanon War, a blatant, proven violation of UN 1701.