Israel says roadside bombs found along Lebanon border

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2007

JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army has discovered and disabled four roadside bombs along the country's northern border with Lebanon.

The buried explosives were found between the UN-drawn Blue Line marking the border with Lebanon and a security fence built a short distance farther south by Israel, near the community of Avivim, the sources said.

"We believe that these charges were freshly planted under the cover of fog and rain over recent days," Lieutenant Colonel Gai Hazout, chief of operations in the northern Galilee region, told AFP.

"A unit patrol of sappers discovered them. Army vehicles driving on the patrol route alongside the security fence could have been hit if the explosives, placed 50 metres from the fence, had exploded," he said.

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