La présence d’un grand nombre de munitions non explosées comprenant, selon les estimations, 1,2 million de bombes grappes, dont 90 % auraient été larguées au cours des derniers jours du conflit, pose un danger particulier pour les enfants du fait qu’elles se trouvent principalement dans les infrastructures détruites, les terrains scolaires et les terres agricoles.
Source : Nations Unies
samedi 30 septembre 2006
jeudi 14 septembre 2006
Iran resumed weapons airlift to Hizballah via Beirut Friday as soon as Israel ended its air blockade
Iran’s first post-blockade arms flight departed Dubai Friday, Sept. 8, to test the ground at Beirut international airport for Israeli air force or UN reactions. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the forbidden goods were unloaded and sailed through the airport unhindered. Tehran therefore determined to send two further bulk consignments in the next 48 hours aboard commercial flights from the Persian Gulf.
Our sources report the arms crates listed were on the documents as “computer equipment. Handle with care.” They were offloaded onto trucks which drove in convoy to Hizballah headquarters in Baalbek.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, determined to end Israel’s air blockade on Lebanon, promised solemnly that UN monitors would control incoming passengers and goods at Beirut airport. But he failed to make the Siniora government follow through on this pledge. The Lebanese prime minister immediately barred the airport to UN inspections. The five German air monitors agreed on were only allowed to establish a checkpoint for controlling arms smuggling at a distance of one kilometer from the international airport. DEBKAfile reports they are standing idle because the trucks carrying forbidden cargoes are able leave the airfield and bypass their checkpoint by alternative routes.
At the same time, DEBKAfile’s diplomatic sources report the Israeli government and the UN are colluding to present the expanded UNIFIL project as a big success and a satisfactory formula for enabling Israeli troops to quit Lebanon and fully implementing UN resolution 1701.
In actual fact, the UN deployment by land and sea does nothing to curtail Hizballah’s recovery and rearming. Its only achievement thus far is the acceleration of Israel’s disengagement from the Lebanon scene empty-handed.
Our military sources disclose that Iran is sending Hizballah fresh supplies of anti-tank weapons and for the first time a large quantity of anti-air missiles. The war materiel is coming in by land, sea and air.
The promised Italian, French and Greek rival presence, on the strength of which Israel lifted its air blockade, has been pushed by the Lebanese government out to sea and restricted to a 12-km radius from the coast. The European warships can keep an eye on big freighters approaching Lebanese ports, but cannot keep track of the small vessels reaching Lebanon ports from the northern Syrian ports of Tartus and Latakia. That is where Iranian cargo vessels have been unloading large quantities of arms for Hizballah outside the European fleets’ limits in the last two weeks. Furthermore, Friday, as soon as Israel was persuaded to lift its sea blockade, three Lebanese and Syrian ships crammed with arms for Hizballah departed the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli and after a short voyage hugging the Lebanese coast put into the southern Lebanese port of Sidon, where willing Hizballah hands unloaded their cargo.
On land, the Lebanese-Syrian border is wide open. Three or four arms truck convoys cross into Lebanon every day.
Source : Debka
Our sources report the arms crates listed were on the documents as “computer equipment. Handle with care.” They were offloaded onto trucks which drove in convoy to Hizballah headquarters in Baalbek.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, determined to end Israel’s air blockade on Lebanon, promised solemnly that UN monitors would control incoming passengers and goods at Beirut airport. But he failed to make the Siniora government follow through on this pledge. The Lebanese prime minister immediately barred the airport to UN inspections. The five German air monitors agreed on were only allowed to establish a checkpoint for controlling arms smuggling at a distance of one kilometer from the international airport. DEBKAfile reports they are standing idle because the trucks carrying forbidden cargoes are able leave the airfield and bypass their checkpoint by alternative routes.
At the same time, DEBKAfile’s diplomatic sources report the Israeli government and the UN are colluding to present the expanded UNIFIL project as a big success and a satisfactory formula for enabling Israeli troops to quit Lebanon and fully implementing UN resolution 1701.
In actual fact, the UN deployment by land and sea does nothing to curtail Hizballah’s recovery and rearming. Its only achievement thus far is the acceleration of Israel’s disengagement from the Lebanon scene empty-handed.
Our military sources disclose that Iran is sending Hizballah fresh supplies of anti-tank weapons and for the first time a large quantity of anti-air missiles. The war materiel is coming in by land, sea and air.
The promised Italian, French and Greek rival presence, on the strength of which Israel lifted its air blockade, has been pushed by the Lebanese government out to sea and restricted to a 12-km radius from the coast. The European warships can keep an eye on big freighters approaching Lebanese ports, but cannot keep track of the small vessels reaching Lebanon ports from the northern Syrian ports of Tartus and Latakia. That is where Iranian cargo vessels have been unloading large quantities of arms for Hizballah outside the European fleets’ limits in the last two weeks. Furthermore, Friday, as soon as Israel was persuaded to lift its sea blockade, three Lebanese and Syrian ships crammed with arms for Hizballah departed the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli and after a short voyage hugging the Lebanese coast put into the southern Lebanese port of Sidon, where willing Hizballah hands unloaded their cargo.
On land, the Lebanese-Syrian border is wide open. Three or four arms truck convoys cross into Lebanon every day.
Source : Debka
mardi 12 septembre 2006
Les armes pénètrent de nouveau au Liban, malgré la FINUL
Selon le site israélien Debka, plusieurs chargements d'armes en provenance d'Iran sont déjà parvenu au Liban malgré le contrôle aérien et maritime que la FINUL prétend effectuer. (…)
Le premier vol post-blocus avec des armes de l’Iran est parti de Dubaï vendredi 8 septembre, pour tester à l’aéroport international de Beyrouth, les réactions de l’Armée de l’air d’Israël ou de l’ONU. Des sources militaires annoncent que les marchandises interdites ont été déchargées et ont navigué par l’aéroport librement. Téhéran a donc décidé d’envoyer deux nouveaux gros chargements dans les 48 prochaines heures à bord de vols commerciaux du Golfe Persique.
Nos sources annoncent que les caisses d’armes étaient inscrites sur les documents comme "de l’équipement d’ordinateur. Fragile." Ils ont été débarqués sur des camions qui ont roulé en convoi au quartier général du Hezbollah à Baalbek.
Source : Le Conservateur
Le premier vol post-blocus avec des armes de l’Iran est parti de Dubaï vendredi 8 septembre, pour tester à l’aéroport international de Beyrouth, les réactions de l’Armée de l’air d’Israël ou de l’ONU. Des sources militaires annoncent que les marchandises interdites ont été déchargées et ont navigué par l’aéroport librement. Téhéran a donc décidé d’envoyer deux nouveaux gros chargements dans les 48 prochaines heures à bord de vols commerciaux du Golfe Persique.
Nos sources annoncent que les caisses d’armes étaient inscrites sur les documents comme "de l’équipement d’ordinateur. Fragile." Ils ont été débarqués sur des camions qui ont roulé en convoi au quartier général du Hezbollah à Baalbek.
Source : Le Conservateur
mercredi 6 septembre 2006
100.000 BASM non explosées menacent les civils
Aujourd'hui, les sous munitions non explosées sont l'une des principales menaces pour les populations civiles au Sud Liban. Larguées lors des bombardements, plus de 100 000 d'entre elles gisent encore au sol, non explosées, polluant ainsi plus de 400 zones (source UNMACC) et faisant courir un risque mortel aux populations civiles. De nombreux modèles différents de sous munitions ont pu être observés notamment dans des zones d'habitation :
- M42, M77, BLU 63 fabriquées par les USA,
- M85 fabriquées par les Israéliens.
(…) La dissémination de sous munitions non explosées liée au dernier conflit va nécessiter de nombreux mois, voire plus d'un an de déminage au Sud Liban.
Source : Handicap International
- M42, M77, BLU 63 fabriquées par les USA,
- M85 fabriquées par les Israéliens.
(…) La dissémination de sous munitions non explosées liée au dernier conflit va nécessiter de nombreux mois, voire plus d'un an de déminage au Sud Liban.
Source : Handicap International
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