The Israeli army said on Thursday it was launching attacks in southern Lebanon after a shell was fired from Lebanese territory and exploded near the border with Israel.
This new border incident between Lebanon and Israel, two countries technically in a state of war, occurred in the Lebanese border area with the Syrian Golan Heights occupied and annexed by Israel.
“A shot was fired from Lebanese territory and exploded near the border, on Israeli territory,” the Israeli army said in a statement, later telling Agence France-Presse (AFP) that it was a mortar.
“In response, the army is currently attacking the area from which the shot was fired on Lebanese territory,” the military statement added.
In Lebanon, the official Ani news agency reported that “an Israeli artillery shelling is taking place in the vicinity of the city of Kfarchouba,” in the same region, with more than 15 155mm artillery rounds.
Earlier this morning, the Lebanese ‘jihadist’ movement Hezbollah denounced Israel’s decision to build a wall around the village of Ghajar, which is located in the Israeli-Lebanese occupied part of the Syrian Golan Heights, and he called for actions to “avoid the consolidation of the occupation.”
There are currently no known deaths or injuries.
After Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000, ending a 22-year occupation, the UN drew a blue line marking the border between the two countries.
This line places the northern part of Ghajar in Lebanon and the southern part in the Israeli-occupied and annexed section of the Golan Heights.
In a press release, the powerful Lebanese Shiite party denounced the installation by Israeli forces of “a barbed wire fence and the construction of a concrete wall around the entire town”, which “separates this town from its natural and historical environment in Lebanese territory”. .
Source: TSF
