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Israeli forces sprayed accelerant on a wildfire in Dheira, south Lebanon as members of the Lebanese civil defence fought to extinguish it on Saturday, a civil defence official told The New Arab. Videos of the blaze published by Lebanese outlet megaphone showed firefighters bracing themselves as a substance was sprayed from a hose from the Israeli side of the border wall, causing the fire to increase in size. “The fire was started by Israeli white phosphorus. It happened as the firefighters had just about contained the fire, the Israelis put some sort of accelerant on top of it,” Abdullah Derdg…

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