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Conflict Incident Report

UNIFIL patrol, south Lebanon locals engage in verbal brawl

Date of incident: 
November 18, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians
UNIFIL

The Lebanese Army Friday intervened to resolve a verbal dispute between locals in a south border town and a UNIFIL patrol, state media reported.

The National News Agency said that the dispute broke out after a group of resident in Kfar Kila, a town in the southern district of Marjayoun, objected to a surveillance point that the peacekeepers were erecting in the area.

Primary category: 
Brawl/Dispute
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.