Lebanon's army destroys 9,700 square meters of cannabis in Zarzir and Ainata
Lebanon's army said on 1 November 2026 that one of its units had destroyed a marijuana crop covering about 9,700 square meters in the Zarzir and Ainata areas of Baalbek. The statement gave no plant count or weight, named no suspects and reported no arrests.
🇱🇧 Zarzir and Ainata, Baalbek · Lebanon
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A Lebanese army unit destroyed a marijuana crop covering about 9,700 square
meters in the Zarzir and Ainata areas of Baalbek, the army said on 1 November
2026.[1][2][3][4][5] The army’s Directorate of Orientation said the unit had worked to
destroy the planted area in the two locations.[6][7][5] The army’s English statement
put the crop at an estimated 9,700 square meters in Zarazir and Aainata, in
Baalbek.[8] That is about 0.97 hectares, or roughly 9.7 Lebanese dunams of
1,000 square meters.[1][4]
The army gave no count of plants, weight of cannabis or value for the crop.[1]
It named no owner, cultivator or suspect, and reported no arrests or charges.[1] It did not say whether the crop was cut, burned or uprooted.[6]
Zarzir and Ainata lie in the Baalbek district.[1][3][5] The army did not say how the
planted area was divided between the two areas.[1] No deaths or injuries were
reported.[1]
Sources
- الجيش يتلف حوالي 9700 متر مربع من مادة الماريجوانا في منطقتَي الزرازير وعيناتا – بعلبك. Lebanese Army, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- 9700 متر مربع من الماريجوانا.. الجيش يتلف مزروعات في الزرازير وعيناتا. Addiyar, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- بالفيديو: الجيش يعلن إتلاف مساحة واسعة من "الماريجوانا". MTV Lebanon, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- بالفيديو: الجيش يعلن إتلاف مساحة واسعة من "الماريجوانا". MTV Lebanon, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- بالصور: عملية للجيش في بعلبك... إتلاف نحو 9700 متر مربع من الماريجوانا. Elsiyasa, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- الجيش يتلف حوالي 9700 متر مربع من مادة الماريجوانا في منطقتَي الزرازير وعيناتا – بعلبك. Ertikaz News, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- الجيش يتلف نحو 9700 متر مربع من مادة الماريجوانا في منطقتَي الزرازير وعيناتا قضاء بعلبك. Al-Manar, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- Watch: Lebanese Army Destroys Large Area of Marijuana Crops. MTV Lebanon, 1 November 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- The army's statement gives no separate date for the destruction; 1 November 2026 is the date the statement was issued.
- No figure for the number of plants, the weight of cannabis or the value of the crop was published.
- No owner, cultivator or suspect was named, and no arrests or charges were reported.
- The pin is the centre of Zarzir, one of the two named areas; the statement does not locate the fields or say how the area was divided between Zarzir and Ainata.
- The army published three photographs with the statement but gave no captions; MTV Lebanon attached a video, but no stable public video address was available, so no video is linked.
- All the reports found repeat the army statement; no independent account of the destruction was published.
- Addiyar and Al-Manar write the first village as الزرازير, which MTV rendered as Zarazir, while the existing report's title and place use Zarzir; the Arabic statement and the 9,700 square meter figure are otherwise the same.
- The MTV Lebanon page gives no caption or credit for its lead image, which appears to be a frame from the Army video; it could not be confirmed as distinct from the three Army photographs already linked, so no new media entry was added.
- Elsiyasa's page carries three photos without captions or credits; they could not be confirmed as distinct from the three Lebanese Army photographs already linked, so no separate media entries were added.
