Israeli troops injured in landmine blast on Lebanon border https://t.co/O2HttIqw5V
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Several Israeli soldiers were maimed Tuesday when a landmine went
kaboom!under a military Humvee vehicle on the border with the Lebanese town of Aita al-Shaab, al-Manar TV reported.
The blast went off as Israeli vehicles were carrying out bulldozing works in the Herj al-Raheb area, al-Manar added.
"One of the soldiers was heard screaming after his leg was amputated by the earth-shattering kaboom," the TV network added, noting that the Israeli vehicles withdrew from the area after the incident.
A security source meanwhile told al-Mayadeen TV that the blast occurred on the Israeli side of the Blue Line.
| The Times of Israel adds: |
kaboom!on the border with
...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade...on Tuesday, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the mine went
kaboom!during routine engineering activity on the northern side of the security barrier, which is built inside Israeli territory.
The IDF said there was no fear of the incident being an attack, but was still investigating what set off the mine and why it was not detected by the forces.
The pair were taken to Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, which said one of the soldiers was listed in moderate but stable condition, while the other was lightly hurt.
Many of Israel’s border regions, near Lebanon — in the Golan Heights, and southern Arava region — are pocked with minefields planted during wars in the early years of the state. Some mines were planted by the Israeli military, while others were put there by Syria and Jordan.
Efforts to remove them are dangerous and have been painstakingly slow, leaving the area near the Lebanon border, in the Golan, and Arava with a number of fenced-off minefields. Accidents are rare, but occasionally occur.
The border with Lebanon has been somewhat tense in recent weeks, with the
Hezbollah terror group establishing new tall observation posts as the IDF ramps up the construction of a defensive wall.The IDF said it expects that ongoing construction work to build a wall along the northern frontier, to replace an aging fence, would be completed within two years.