Lebanese forces on alert on Israeli border
The Lebanese Broadcast Corporation (LBC) television network is reporting that Lebanese forces are on alert on the country's border with Israel due to the various incidents that have taken place there over the last few days. According to the Lebanese TV station, the forces' alert level was raised in response to Israeli violations of UN Resolution 1701, which ended Israel's war with Hizbullah in the summer of 2006. The report mentioned the erection of a military outpost near Kafr Shuba, a village just outside the divided border village of Ghajar, as an example of one of these "violations."I don't believe anything is really going on, but you never know for sure.
A series of incidents have resulted in heightened tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border. Over the weekend a group of fifteen Lebanese citizens, including several children, crossed the border from Lebanon into Israel. The people were carrying Hezbollah and Lebanese flags.
The group crossed the border at a spot where no fence exists, and walked to the Israeli side. IDF soldiers spotted them, but seeing they were unarmed, and had children with them, decided not to respond.
Several minutes after crossing the border, the group turned back and returned to Lebanese territory.
Ten days prior to that incident Israel security forces apprehended a 30-year-old Lebanese citizen who crossed the border into Israel. The man, who was unarmed, was taken in for questioning. On July 11 Lebanese security forces located two Katyusha rockets in the southern district of Nabatiye. The rockets were not ready to launch.
About a week ago an apparent fire at a Hezbollah weapons cache located some nine miles from the border caused a series of explosions in an abandoned building near the border with Israel. A few days later dozens of villagers in Bir el-Salasel prevented United Nations peacekeepers from searching the building. The villagers demanded that the peacekeepers to leave and threw stones at their vehicles. Fourteen UNIFIL observers sustained mild injuries.
UNIFIL called the Hezbollah weapons cache was a "serious violation" of the UN-brokered ceasefire that ended the Second Lebanon War.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:49 AM
1 Comments:
The children should have been driven back with skunk spray! The IDF troops who failed to secure the border should be court-martialed! A sovereign state must secure the border from the enemy and prevent infiltration, regardless of intent.
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