The Israeli army carried out attacks on southern Lebanon on Thursday after an unclaimed anti-tank missile was fired from there.
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This new incident between the two countries, which are technically at war after several conflicts, occurred in the border area between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied and annexed territory of the Syrian Golan.
“A shot was fired from Lebanese territory and exploded near the border on Israeli territory,” the Israeli army said, specifying that it was an anti-tank missile.
In response, the army announced that it had “attacked the area from which the shooting was conducted,” adding that the perpetrators of the shooting had not been identified.
In Lebanon, the official Ani news agency reported that Israel fired “more than 15 artillery shells” of 155mm caliber near the village of Kfar Chouba on the border.
The incident comes three months after the biggest confrontation in recent years between the two countries, which was sparked by rocket fire from Lebanon towards Israel in early April.
This also comes after a major Israeli military operation that ended on Wednesday in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
concrete wall
Earlier on Thursday, the Lebanese Hezbollah denounced Israel’s decision to build a wall around the village of Ghajar, which stretches across the Israeli-held part of the Syrian Golan and Lebanon.
After Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, which ended the 22-year occupation, the United Nations drew a “blue line” demarcating 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.
In a statement, the powerful Lebanese Shia formation condemned Israel’s erection of a barbed wire fence and concrete wall around the entire village, which now “separates this village from its natural surroundings and history on Lebanese territory.” “.
“This major development represents a complete occupation of the Lebanese part of the village of Ghajar by force of arms and the imposition of a fait accompli,” Hezbollah added, calling on the authorities and the Lebanese to “take measures to prevent this development from consolidating.” ” Profession”.
Lebanese diplomacy on Tuesday condemned Israel’s attempt to annex the northern part of Ghajar, citing “serious attacks on stability and the status quo,” a “blatant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701,” which came into force after the war between Israel and Israel in 2006 became Hezbollah.
Formed after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the pro-Iranian Hezbollah is the only Lebanese formation to have kept its arms in the name of “resistance” against Israel since the end of the civil war (1975-1990).
According to AFP correspondents on the ground, it organized the largest maneuver in years in southern Lebanon in late May, revealing heavy weapons and simulating attacks on Israeli territory.
About 200 masked militants had also simulated opening a breach in the concrete wall built by Israel at the border and pretended to storm in.
In late June, Hezbollah announced that for the first time in almost two years it had shot down an Israeli drone that had entered Lebanese airspace near the border in the south of the country.
On Thursday, to ensure the maintenance of the ceasefire between the two countries, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), based in southern Lebanon, called on the parties to “exercise restraint and avoid any action that could provoke a new escalation.”