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Israeli Army opens fire in southern Lebanon
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 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
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