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Israel is imposing an 'unannounced siege' on Lebanon, says minister

Lebanon’s minister of transport Ali Hamieh told Al Jazeera in a live interview that Israel is imposing “an unannounced siege” on Lebanon. 

The minister told Reuters earlier on Friday that an Israeli strike this morning near Lebanon's Masnaa border crossing with Syria cut off a road used by hundreds of thousands of displaced people fleeing Israeli bombardments over the past four days. 

He pointed out that the strike created a four-metre (12 feet) wide crater. The Israeli army has claimed that Hezbollah used the crossing to transport military equipment to Lebanon.