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2021-12-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Blast Rocks Outskirts of Baalbek Town
[An Nahar] A blast rocked the outskirts of the Baalbek town of al-Nabi Sheet in Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia...
’s Eastern Mountain Range on Tuesday.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the earth-shattering kaboom resulted from the detonation of leftover ammunition near the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Al-Jadeed TV said the blast was caused by "the detonation of an old rocket left over from the 1982 (Israeli) invasion" of Lebanon.

LBCI television for its part said the earth-shattering kaboom went off at a Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
post.

Al-Arabiya TV had reported that the blast resulted from an "Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on depots belonging to Hizbullah." It later quoted unnamed sources as saying that "the sounds of blasts east of Baalbek resulted from the detonation of old explosives and not an Israeli airstrike."

Sky News Arabia for its part said that the blast was caused by the detonation of "obsolete ammunition."

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