IDF troops in southern Lebanon recently uncovered two stockpiles of military equipment and weapons in a civilian home located approximately 200 meters from a United Nations post and in a storage facility located approximately 100 meters from a UN post, the military announced on Sunday. During operations by the 'Oded' (9th) Brigade Combat Team in the area of Meiss El Jabal, Israeli forces found Kalashnikov rifles, RPG launchers and rockets, a PK machine gun, fragmentation grenades, an explosive device, ammunition, and communications and surveillance equipment.
These were found alongside humanitarian aid boxes and emblems of the Amal and Hezbollah terrorist organizations.Hezbollah apartment found near UN post in Et TiriIn a separate operation in the area of Et Tiri, troops from the Kfir Brigade Combat Team located an apartment that Hezbollah had been using for military purposes, about 250 meters from a UN post, the IDF said.Inside, soldiers found surveillance equipment, combat gear, living supplies and Hezbollah emblems.Both brigades are operating under the 91st Division in the security zone in southern Lebanon.The military said the findings were further evidence that UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, had failed in its mission, and that terrorist groups were cynically exploiting the force's inaction.
The IDF said it would not allow Hezbollah to harm Israeli civilians or soldiers, and would continue to remove threats while remaining committed to the ceasefire agreement.
The Jerusalem Post relays an Israeli military statement about weapons finds near UN posts in southern Lebanon. In its own voice it calls Amal and Hezbollah 'terrorist organizations', words the Jewish Chronicle prints in quotation marks and attributes to an IOF statement. Its headline also states the military's account of the finds without the attribution the body gives.
States one side's claim as fact
Serious
“emblems of the Amal and Hezbollah terrorist organizations”
Why this matters
The Jerusalem Post calls Amal and Hezbollah 'terrorist organizations' in its own voice, in a sentence with no attribution, repeating the IOF statement's wording.
The impression it gives
A reader takes the terrorist label for both Lebanese groups as the paper's neutral description of fact.
The context
The phrase is the Israeli military's. The Jewish Chronicle prints the same words inside quotation marks and attributes them to an IOF statement.