Jerusalem, (EFE) on that border.
“The matter is known and is being handled with all the relevant parties,” confirmed to EFE a military spokesman for the Israeli Army, which has not yet evacuated those military posts established two weeks ago.
The information has been uncovered by the Israeli public broadcaster Kan, citing leaked information from a closed-door meeting of a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) committee, and the Army has been forced to confirm it.
Military sources clarified that the move by Hezbollah – seen by Israel as one of its main enemies and an ally of Iran, which controls all of southern Lebanon – is a provocation and does not represent a serious threat to the country.
Israel is not taking any military action at the moment.
The incident, according to Kan, was discussed last week at a security cabinet meeting, at which it was reported that the tents are guarded by up to eight armed Hezbollah members, but due to the sensitivity of the issue, Israel has opted to for the time being for not taking any military action.
At first, Israeli soldiers used protest dispersal methods, but the Lebanese did not budge.
Second time Hezbollah penetrates Israel
This is the second time that Hezbollah members have entered Israeli territory in a few months, after a militiaman crossed the border and traveled more than 80 kilometers to the town of Megiddo, where he detonated a bomb that seriously injured an Israeli, although his intention was to “kill more civilians,” the Army said.
Diplomatic relations
For the moment, Israel has chosen to deal diplomatically with the matter, through UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon, installed in 2006 after the war between the two countries, which technically remain at war since then although they signed in 2022 an unprecedented agreement to limit its maritime border and share out the gas fields in the area.
Although both countries have never had diplomatic relations, Israel claims to be willing to have a good relationship with the authorities in Lebanon, a country mired in a deep political and economic crisis, which is giving wings to Hezbollah, which controls more and more parts of the country more and more. there to the south
Guarded by armed men
The Hezbollah posts, guarded by the group’s gunmen, have been located in the demilitarized zone controlled by the UN, on what is considered Israeli soil, a few meters from the security fence erected by Israel inside its territory.
Israel has not hidden its concern for months about the growing presence of Hezbollah on the Blue Line, where it has built more than 30 military posts since April 2022, each time closer to Israel, official sources confirmed to EFE.
These posts are less than 250 meters from the Israeli separation fence, some of them less than 50 meters, and very close to Israeli communities, making the situation on the border much more volatile and dangerous than a year ago. .
Incidents almost daily
Hezbollah members use these posts to provoke incidents with Israeli troops almost every day, watching them with binoculars, taking photos or even throwing stones at them, provocations that still do not represent a serious military threat, but do seek to generate friction, an official explained to EFE. military on condition of anonymity.
Hezbollah members are no longer in hiding and their presence on the Blue Line is a “growing phenomenon” on the northern border, where Palestinian militias from refugee camps in the south, operating under Hezbollah control, are also gaining strength.
These militias, led by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, launched around thirty rockets into Israel from Lebanon last April, in the largest attack from the northern border since the 2006 war, something that occurred with the connivance of Hezbollah, according to the establishment. Israeli military.