Israel strikes in southern Lebanon after explosion near Israeli border

The Israeli army said on Thursday it launched attacks in southern Lebanon after a projectile was fired from Lebanese territory and exploded near the border with Israel.

This new border incident between Lebanon and Israel, two countries technically at war, took place in the Lebanese border area with the Syrian Golan Heights occupied and annexed by Israel.

“The shot was fired from Lebanese territory and exploded near the border, on Israeli territory,” the Israeli army said in a statement, later telling France-Presse (AFP) news agency that it was a mortar.

“In response, the army is currently attacking the area from which the shot was fired on Lebanese territory,” the military said in a statement.

In Lebanon, the official news agency Ani reported that “in the area of ​​the city of Kfarchub” in the same region, “Israeli artillery shelling is being carried out”, during which more than 15 155-mm artillery shells were fired.

Early in the morning, the Lebanese “jihadist” movement Hezbollah denounced Israel’s decision to build a wall around the village of Ghajar, located in the Israeli-Lebanese-occupied part of the Syrian Golan Heights, calling for action to “prevent the consolidation of the occupation.”

At the moment, there are no deaths or injuries.

After Israel’s withdrawal from South Lebanon in 2000, ending 22 years of occupation, the UN drew a blue line marking 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 part of the Golan Heights.

In a press release, the powerful Lebanese Shiite Party denounced the installation by Israeli forces of “a barbed wire fence and a concrete wall around the entire city” that “separates this village from its natural and historical environment in Lebanese territory.” .