‘Enemy Breached Blue Line’: Lebanese Army Claims Israeli Forces Made Brief Incursion, Hezbollah Says Exchanged Gunfire


An Israeli tank is transported to a position in the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. (Image: AFP)

An Israeli tank is transported to a position in the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. (Image: AFP)

Israeli soldiers breached the Blue Line, entering 400 metres into Lebanon’s southern territory, before retreating shortly after, the Lebanese Hezbollah and the nation’s army claimed.

Lebanon’s army said Israeli soldiers made a brief incursion into the country’s south Wednesday, after militant group Hezbollah reported clashes with Israeli troops in two areas.

“Israeli enemy forces breached the Blue Line by approximately 400 metres (yards) into Lebanese territory” in two areas, “then withdrew a short time later”, an army statement on X said, referring to the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, also on Wednesday, said its fighters were clashing with Israeli troops who had “infiltrated” a southern border village, after it said earlier it had repelled an attempted infiltration elsewhere.

Hezbollah “is engaged in clashes with the Israeli enemy’s soldiers who infiltrated the village of Maroun al-Ras from the east”, the Iran-backed group said, adding that the clashes were “ongoing”.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – AFP)



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