BEIRUT 5 (Dispatches) – The Lebanese army on Wednesday stopped a bulldozer backed by Zionist troops from breaching the Blue Line by digging at the “technical fence” along the border with the occupied territories, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.
The bulldozer was attempting to dig the road in the Karkazan area in the town of Mays el-Jabal but was forced by the Lebanese army to retreat, according to the NNA report.
A patrol of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon arrived and documented the breach, the report said.
The occupying regime built the “technical fence” with electrified wires along the 79-km border with Lebanon in 2001, about 50 meters south of the Blue Line, a demarcation line between Lebanon and the occupied territories published by the United Nations in 2000.
The Lebanese border has been mostly quiet since the occupying regime fought a month-long war with Hezbollah in 2006.
Citing local media sources, Anadolu reported that the Zionist regimes has informed Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement during the Eid Al-Adha holiday that it does not want war and does not intend to forcibly remove a military outpost set up by the movement on the southern border of the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms.
The communication was sent through the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea.
According to the official Israeli channel Kan on 21 June, Hezbollah set up an armed military site [two tents] in the Dov Mountain sector of the occupied Shebaa Farms.
On Tuesday, the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper, which is close to Hezbollah, said, “Last month was full of international mediation at the request of the Israeli enemy to resolve the crisis caused by the presence of the two tents.” Following the delivery of the message to the group, it added, Ambassador Shea requested an urgent meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati to inform him of Tel Aviv’s message.
Shea explained during the meeting that the Biden administration urges the Lebanese government to reach an understanding between the army leadership and the international emergency forces to address the issue of the tents.
There was no comment from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut or Hezbollah about the report. A Lebanese government source refused to comment to Anadolu about it.
“Any Israeli action to remove the two tents, whatever its level, will cost a war,” warned the head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, Muhammad Raad, on Saturday.
Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Sunday the possibility of an “escalation” in light of Hezbollah’s refusal to remove the two tents from the occupied Lebanese territory.