No longer afraid: UNIFIL reportedly take down Hezbollah flags in southern Lebanon

No longer afraid: UNIFIL reportedly take down Hezbollah flags in southern Lebanon

UNIFIL patrol accused of tearing down Hezbollah flags and posters in southern Lebanon town; incident caught on video sparks confrontation with locals.

News spread across social media about a UNIFIL patrol being seen “attempting to throw a number of flags and pictures of martyrs into a garbage container, after removing them from the place where they were installed, at a turn leading to Aitaroun from the border town of Blida.” The Fact Check Lebanon team at the Ministry of Information contacted the Deputy Director of the UNIFIL Public Information Office, Candice Ardell, who confirmed that…