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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Damien Gayle and William Christou

Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon

President Joseph Aoun in front of a Lebanese flag
President Joseph Aoun said Lebanon would take ‘all necessary legal and diplomatic measures to confront this aggression’. Photograph: Reuters

Lebanon has accused Israel of spraying a herbicide linked to cancer on farmland in the south of the country as a “health crime” that would threaten food security and farmers’ livelihoods.

The country’s president, Joseph Aoun, condemned what he called “an environmental and health crime” and a violation of Lebanese sovereignty, and he vowed to take “all necessary legal and diplomatic measures to confront this aggression”.

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