BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 6 (UPI) -- The Lebanese army reported its members on Friday found an unexploded 2,000-pound Israeli bomb in Beirut's southern suburbs.
The military said in a statement an engineering unit discovered the munitions in al-Madi, which was severely damaged by Israeli airstrikes during last summer's war.
The suburbs were strongholds of the Shiite Hezbollah organization, whose guerrillas fought Israeli ground offensives in southern Lebanon during the 34-day war. Hezbollah used the buildings in the region to launch missiles into Israel.
The army statement said the bomb, apparently dropped by an Israeli jet, was defused and taken to a distant site to be dismantled.
Thousands of unexploded bombs littered the southern suburbs and the predominantly Shiite South Lebanon, an area bordering Israel. Dozens of Lebanese have been killed or injured by the explosives since the war ended.
