Today, Sunday, the Lebanese army announced that it had forced an Israeli military patrol to retreat from the country's southern borders, after violating the Blue Line.
The blue line was set by the United Nations for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon in 2000, and Beirut has reservations about some of the areas it passes through in light of Tel Aviv's continued occupation of Lebanese lands.
The Army Command said, in a statement published on its website, that "today, between 11:55 and 12:00, a patrol of the Israeli enemy violated the Blue Line near Point 1 in the town of Aita al-Shaab, at a distance of about one meter, so a patrol of the Lebanese army came and forced the enemy patrol to retreat beyond the Blue Line into the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
According to the statement, a patrol from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) attended to verify the breach, indicating that the matter is being followed up in coordination with the aforementioned force.
The Anatolia correspondent quoted a Lebanese security source as saying that the Israeli soldiers tried to put a barbed wire fence inside the borders before the army intervened and prevented them from doing so.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli side on the Lebanese army's statement.
And in early February, the Lebanese army called for the removal of a barbed wire erected by Israel in a disputed area at Lebanon's southern border.
Lebanon repeatedly complains of Israel's violation of its airspace and territorial waters and calls on the United Nations to intervene to stop these violations.