The Lebanese media reported that the forces of the Zionist Israeli regime and the Lebanese army were on alert after escalated tension at the border lines.
According to the Lebanese Elnashra news website, the tension rose after an Israeli regime officer pushed an Israeli regime’s officer and removed the metal stake that the Zionist regime’s soldier was placing on the ground in violation of the Blue Line.
After the tension between the two sides, UN peacekeeping forces intervened to prevent clashes.
Israeli regime’s media said that tensions rose along the Israeli regime-Lebanese border and the Lebanese Army was put on alert Sunday after reports that an Israeli regime’s military patrol crossed the frontier.
“An Israeli enemy patrol breached the Blue Line in Aita al-Shaab [South Lebanon], to a distance of approximately one meter,” the Lebanese army said in a statement according to media reports.
The Blue Line is a temporary border published by the UN on June 7, 2000, after the Israeli regime’s withdrawal from Lebanon.
It was earlier reported that, The Lebanese army has been on alert since Sunday after Israeli forces advanced outside the technical fence located at the border between the two countries.
What happened: Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that two Israeli Bucklin bulldozers, a D9 bulldozer, an armored personnel carrier and an infantry force approached the technical fence near Hounin Valley on Sunday morning.
The bulldozers were stopped as they were carrying out excavation works near the border and approaching the Blue Line.
Know More: This is not the first incident that has been recently reported. The Lebanese army shot at an Israeli drone that crossed into Lebanese airspace in mid-January.
Tensions are prevalent between Lebanon and Israel along the Blue Line in southern Lebanon. A land boundary demarcation line instilled by the United Nations in 2000 acts like a temporary buffer zone between the two countries.
Today, it is protected by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon stationed in the area since 1978.
The area often witnesses cross-border skirmishes between the two sides as the Lebanese repeatedly accuse Israel of violating its airspace and territorial waters.
In October, Lebanon and Israel, through US mediation, delineated their maritime border after two years of indirect negotiations.
The two countries are still technically at war and have no diplomatic relations, prohibiting any kind of contact between Lebanese and Israeli citizens.
