Meeting Between UNIFIL, IDF, LAF Ends with Presentation of Mine Field Maps

MediaLine reports that Israel has handed over to UNIFIL forces maps of mine fields it laid between 1978 and its withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. It did so at a tri-lateral meeting between UNIFIL, the IDF and the LAF. In turning over the maps, Israel has fulfilled a long-standing demand by UNIFIL and the Lebanese army.

Disclosing the locations of several hundred thousand mines that were laid during Israel's occupation of a border zone in southern Lebanon has been one of the main demands of the Lebanese government and Hezbollah.