Clashes erupt on Israeli-Lebanese border after Lebanese army forces cross into the Golan Heights, fire tear gas at Israeli soldiers.

By The Associated Press

The Lebanese army said troops fired tear gas at Israeli soldiers in a disputed area along the border between the two countries Saturday.

No one was hurt in the incident.

The area where the incident occurred is in Mount Dov – also known as Shebaa Farms – and the Kfar Chouba hills that were captured by Israel from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War were placed under Israeli sovereignty in 1981.

The Lebanese government insists the area actually belongs to Lebanon.

The Lebanese army said a bulldozer was working on the Lebanese side of the border to remove a sand barrier placed earlier by the Israelis when Israeli troops fired tear gas to force it to stop.

The army said Lebanese troops responded by firing tear gas at the Israeli soldiers.

The Israeli military said soldiers spotted an engineering vehicle’s shovel crossing the border line from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the area of Mount Dov.

It added that in response, Israeli soldiers used “riot dispersal means” and the vehicle returned to Lebanese territory.

The Lebanon-Israel border has been relatively calm since Israel and Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in 2006. Despite that, there have been tensions.

In April, Israel launched rare airstrikes in southern Lebanon after terrorists fired nearly three dozen rockets from Lebanon at Israel, wounding two people and causing property damage.

In July, Israeli forces shelled a southern Lebanese border village after several explosions were heard on the Israeli side of the frontier.

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The three reported raids on PFLP outposts were said to have been carried out just minutes apart from one another. The PFLP appeared to acknowledge the attack did take place.

By World Israel News Staff 

A Lebanese state news agency is reporting that Israel carried out three raids on Sunday night that targeted “the outskirts of Qusaya village in west Zahle in Central Bekaa, where military outposts for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) under the command of Ahmed Jebril are located.”

The report, from the state-owned National News Agency (NNA), said that “PLFP members immediately retaliated with anti-aircraft” fire.

NNA also reported that an Israeli “unmanned spy drone” had violated Lebanese airspace at dawn over Shebaa Farms, in the area of the Israeli-Lebanese border, and flew over several towns.

The three reported raids on PFLP outposts were said to have been carried out just minutes apart from one another. The PFLP-General Command is said to be backed by Syria and the terror group’s bases are located near the Syrian-Lebanese border.

Israel has not officially reacted to the reports.

Giving credence to reports of the attack was the response by the PFLP itself later on Sunday. It stated, “The Israeli attack on military focal points in the city of Qusaya is part of a circle of Zionist aggression against the axis of resistance. It’s our right to respond with full force to this criminal aggression.”

Lebanese media quoted security sources saying there were no injuries in the attack, but other Arab media reports gave conflicting numbers of casualties, reported the Israel Hayom newspaper.

“An official from the Lebanese town of Qusaya… said [the] three airstrikes” caused “only material damage,” reported the Israeli news outlet.

“The strike comes amid heightened regional tensions and a day after one alleged Israeli drone crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut while another exploded and crashed nearby,” reported Gulf News.

“On Sunday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah even warned from his Beirut bunker that the Shi’ite group would respond against Israel,” wrote the Breitbart news agency.

“Airstrikes by Israel against Palestinian factions in Lebanon, such as this one, have been rare in the past years,” noted The Associated Press.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is the second largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization, the largest being Fatah. It became known for a number of terrorist attacks in the late 1960s and early 1970s and for pioneering aircraft hijackings.

It went largely underground in the 1980s and 1990s but reemerged during Syria’s Civil War and has been strengthened by Iran for taking a pro-Assad stance.

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