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Israel has demanded that the United Nations investigate an explosion at a Hezbollah house in southern Lebanon on Monday, which it said proved munitions were being stockpiled in violation of a truce.
Hezbollah has denied that the explosion that rocked a south Lebanon house was serving as a munitions bunker, and rejected media reports that a senior group official was killed in the blast.
An Israel Defense Forces source said the explosion indicated the Iranian-backed guerrilla group Israel fought in a month-long war in 2006 was keeping "banned ammunition" in southern Lebanon. "The Israeli military has asked UNIFIL to open an investigation," the source said, using the acronym for a United Nations peacekeeping force that has patrolled the troubled Israeli-Lebanese border area for more than three decades.
The cause of the blast appeared to be accidental, reports from Lebanon said. An Israeli military spokeswoman also confirmed Israel had "nothing to do" with the incident.
Lebanese media said that a senior official and at least three others were killed in a blast in a three-story building in the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Filsi, on the southern bank of the Litani River.
Lebanese media named the official as Saeed Nasser and security sources listed his son among the fatalities.
Hezbollah denied that the house was being used as an arms depot and said that the munitions that caused the blast had belonged to the Israel Defense Forces and were left over from the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
The group also said that nobody had been killed in the explosion and only one person wounded.
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nobody had been killed in the explosion
Or at least there were no body parts recovered that were large enough to identify as human.
[Al Arabiya Latest] An Iranian man was hanged Sunday reportedly by the parents of his victim whom he murdered in a brawl as a teenager, despite international calls urging the Islamic republic to stop such executions.
Behnoud Shojaee had been convicted of stabbing to death 17-year-old Ehsan Nasrollahi during a fight in August 2005 when he himself was aged 17, Iranian news agencies reported.
His execution was postponed at least once last year and again in August.
"The mother and father of Ehsan Nasrollahi themselves carried out the punishment in the Evin prison," the agency ISNA said in reference the notorious detention facility in Tehran.
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I'm OK with this. The loss of a child is devastating. Perhaps there is closure here - and the deterent effect is clear - at least this one won't kill again.
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Vendetta is a basic human behavior. Eye for eye.. What the proto-states promised to end a cycle of violence between clans/tribes/et al was to become the third disinterested party to render 'blind' justice. The fundamental problem today is that the state lacks the will to perform that function. The legal caste is too wrapped up in ritualistic processes, image, and unrealistic expectations/demands. The cycle of gang violence in our own metropolitan areas is a reflection that it is losing that legitimacy to act as a third party.
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The state's monopoly on violence is supposed to short-cut the vendetta cycle. Letting the parents "execute" the guilty party negates the whole point of the exercise.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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