Rockets, Mortars Left Over from 2006 War Found in Tyre Region

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Several rockets and shells were found on Sunday in the Tyre region in south Lebanon, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Three rockets left over from the July War were found in the al-Nsar-Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain area east of Tyre and Lebanese army experts removed them from the location,” NNA said.

Later on Sunday, the agency said more rockets and shells were discovered in the same area, noting that several of them had Hebrew writings.

"Eight mortar shells were found buried in the ground in addition to the three rockets," NNA reported.

It later said six Grad rockets and two Israeli-made rockets were found in the area.

"The army cordoned off the area and prohibited access over safety concerns as the commander of the Italian (UNIFIL) contingent in al-Mansouri Colonel (Giovan Battista) D'Alessio and a number of his officers arrived on the scene to inspect the shells in cooperation with the army," NNA added.

The Lebanese army is still conducting a large search operation in the region, it said.

Later on Sunday, the army confirmed in a statement the discovery of several rockets and shells.

"An army patrol found a number of rockets and shells that were covered in sand. After a military expert examined them, they turned out to be obsolete and left over from the July 2006 war."

Earlier, LBCI said the rockets were of 122mm caliber while Future TV said they were Katyushas.

On Thursday, four rockets were fired from an area between Hawsh and the al-Rashidiyeh Palestinian refugee camp near Tyre towards northern Israel, causing no casualties.

Israel retaliated at dawn Friday with an air strike on tunnels used by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in the Naameh area south of Beirut, although the rocket attack was claimed by the al-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades.

And on Monday, several rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and hundreds of machinegun bullets were found on a road in Western Zawtar in the Nabatiyeh province.

Comments 11
Default-user-icon Huss (Guest) 25 August 2013, 17:48

Habibi ya mama win da2 IL bab ifta7ilo...

Thumb _mowaten_ 26 August 2013, 11:41

agreed, totally makes sense.

Thumb _mowaten_ 26 August 2013, 11:42

agreed, as long as the CCTV network's security can be guaranteed.

Thumb _mowaten_ 26 August 2013, 11:44

how this guy managed to fool so many people, especially security agencies is beyond me... what a huge scam

Thumb _mowaten_ 26 August 2013, 11:56

ps: anonyme just a little update on a previous discussion:

"anonymetexasusa 3 days ago

Mowaten all your rambling doesn't explain why Bashar is stalling the UN investigation team from going there"

..............

"Breaking News
57 minutes ago A U.N. team headed for the site of the suspected Syria chemical attack"

Thumb _mowaten_ 26 August 2013, 11:58

apparently all they had to do is formalize the request to go on site and prepare logistics.. do you agree now that maybe, just maybe, the chemical attack was launched by some qaeda group to provoke an foreign intervention?

Missing mark 25 August 2013, 18:13

Give them back to HA they need them for another terrorist attack and killing more innocent people.

Thumb primesuspect 25 August 2013, 20:50

they seized them back from the army as soon as the LAF put them in their trucks.

Missing -_-wolf-_- 25 August 2013, 18:42

Send these Rockets to Israel as Express Delivery , they'll be there in less than a minuet , then they will determine what type they are & who posses such arsenal .
Signed Wolf .

Thumb primesuspect 26 August 2013, 05:39

since the 2006 divine victory that lead to the annihilacion of the state of Izrael. jajajajaja yeah right!

Thumb _mowaten_ 26 August 2013, 11:46

since 2006 how many times did israel attack? how many times did they bomb our power stations? how many new Qana massacres?
compare that with the previous 7 years.

deterrence is no longer a one-sided thing.