On Thursday, a video went viral showing Israeli troops using catapults to throw fireballs over the wall near the border with Lebanon and clearing brush.
Israeli broadcaster KAN released a video showing a “creative solution” that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers allegedly used to clear dense vegetation near the Lebanese border.
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The soldiers seen in the video appear to have opted for a classic trebuchet design, apparently using pallets of concrete blocks as counterweights, and a time-tested formula for their fireball ammunition: plants soaked in oil or gasoline.
As for why the IDF would use trebuchets to launch fireballs into Lebanon, when Breitbart News asked the Israeli government about the social media videos of the incendiary devices on Thursday, a spokesman said he had not heard of it.
The Israeli army later Said KAN News ( Jerusalem PostThe Israeli-Lebanese border area is “dotted with boulders, bushes and dense, thorny vegetation, posing a threat to the Israeli Defense Forces deployed there to defend the area,” the report said.
The IDF said the trebuchet was made by reservists from the Northern Outpost who were looking for an efficient way to clear thorns and brush from across the border barrier. The video was reportedly filmed in May.
“This is a local initiative and not a widely used tool,” the military spokesman added.
Other videos showed archers firing flaming arrows and improvised mortars firing Molotov cocktails. Some social media commenters joked that the medieval weapons were designed by Israeli reservists out of boredom. Israeli troops have been stationed on the border for months, guarding against a possible war with Hezbollah.
