[Daily Star-Lebanon] Iman Azzi and Mohammed Zaatari - Lebanese youths threw stones at Spanish troops from the UN peacekeeping forces in the village of Debbine over the weekend. The Lebanese Army intervened to defuse the situation. The incident was the latest in a series of confrontations between southern Lebanon residents and UNIFIL. In the area of Qassimiyeh at the entrance to Tyre, Energy and Water Minister Mohammad Fneish of Hizbullah unveiled a monument of an armored personnel carrier with two fake rockets pointed toward Israel. A sign hanging from the monument declared: "[Hizbullah] has more than 20,000 rockets."
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