The Israeli army opened up with machine-gun fire near a contested border area in southern Lebanon on Sunday, without causing casualties, Lebanese police said The shots were fired from the Israeli-controlled Shebaa Farms towards the Kfar Shuba village and Bastara Farms, as a reconnaissance plane overflew the sector, police said.
Since its withdrawal from south Lebanon in May 2000 after 22 years of occupation, Israel's military, notably the air force, has regularly violated a "Blue Line" drawn up by the United Nations to demarcate the border.
But Israel continues to occupy the Shebaa Farms, a mountainous region on the Lebanese-Syrian borders claimed by Beirut. The Jewish state seized the farmlands from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. Bureau Report