The Israeli army established a new heavy artillery gathering in the central sector of the border with Lebanon, where it pushed pieces of artillery and set up a mobile camp for its soldiers on the spot.

The Israeli occupation army had deployed gatherings in several areas on the border, as well as advanced rooms to manage military movements.

The Al-Jazeera team monitored a number of barracks and advanced camps, and the Israeli soldiers disappeared from the border about ten days ago and disappeared between the valleys and mountains, while supplies continued to be sent to them.

The military police also installed barriers on the streets of the north to prevent military vehicles from reaching areas close to the border in order not to become easy targets for the Lebanese Hezbollah.

Conflicts in statements

An Israeli military source had told the island earlier that Israel was not seeking to be drawn into an adventure in Lebanon and a confrontation with Hezbollah because its priority was to prevent Iran from stationing militarily in Syria.

He stressed that the Israeli army manages security conditions on the borders with Lebanon from a broad strategic perspective, not tactical.

The source denied that the Israeli army was planning to launch any pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah or the Lebanese state, stressing at the same time that the Israeli army continues to mass its forces, and that it would respond with heavy fire to any attack by Hezbollah.

The source said that the Lebanese state’s facilities will also be the target of the Israeli response within a vision set by the army chief of staff about a year ago.

However, the spokesman of the Israeli occupation army, Avichai Adraei, denied the content of these statements, and wrote in a tweet to him on his Twitter account, "The IDF is ready for all possibilities."

Al-Jazeera correspondent Elias Karam said that elements of the Israeli forces began conducting exercises or training at the new site on rapid intervention, after holding a meeting with their leadership, amid a clear and unnatural alert situation ten days ago.

For its part, Al-Jazeera correspondent Carmen Joukhdar said that the scene is different on the Lebanese side of the border, where the movement appears to be normal, there are no visible military movements, and the region is in a state of calm and cautious.