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On June 2nd, Lebanese outlet Daily Star reported that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tanks crossed the technical fence and entered the Blue Line for the first time since 2006.
Lebanese Army with RPGs and Israeli tanks standoff.
Tensions seem to be rising on the Israel-Lebanon border. pic.twitter.com/Uwyxt4phdn
— Yoni Michanie (@YoniMichanie) June 2, 2020
Israeli tanks cross technical fence for first time since 2006https://t.co/GYcuOllXYb
— The Daily Star Lebanon (@DailyStarLeb) June 3, 2020
أنسوا نوع السلاح .. وركزوا على نوع الجرأة..#الجيش_اللبناني#ميركافا pic.twitter.com/1I6FiwD1LT
— علي شعيب ?? (@alishoeib1970) June 2, 2020
The Israeli version is that they didn’t cross the Blue Line, but there was, regardless, a standoff between IDF and Lebanese troops.
טנק צהל פועל במובלעת בגבול לבנון (מעבר לגדר הגבול אך בתוך שטח ישראל) כשמולו חיילי אום וצבא לבנון pic.twitter.com/OhxY8wLrHj
— Or Heller אור הלר (@OrHeller) June 2, 2020
In response to the crossing, a number of Lebanese troops armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers arrived at the scene, standing several meters from the tanks.
Israel handed over to Lebanon a Syrian shepherd who was shot by their forces as he was herding his goats in the occupied Shebaa Farms. Israel said the shooting happened after the sheep herder crossed the UN-marked Blue Line into Israeli territory.
While Lebanese media said that the shepherd, Mohammed Noureddine Abdul Azim, had been shot while in Lebanon as his animals were grazing nearby, the IDF said he crossed some 100 meters into Israel near Mount Dov, also known as Sheeba Farms.
Just days before the incident on Mount Dov, a senior IDF officer stationed in the area told The Jerusalem Post that many shepherds in the area are known to collect intelligence on troop movement.
The area around Adaisseh is considered a no-man’s lands, and the Israeli tanks were not thought to have crossed into Lebanese territory although this was the first time they crossed the technical fence since the Summer War of 2006.
The IDF also posted on Twitter that they hadn’t crossed the Blue Line, and posted a video explaining what the Blue Line was.
Your article states that IDF forces crossed the UN-demarcated Blue Line today. This is false.
They crossed the Israeli security fence, which is located INSIDE Israel and is NOT the Blue Line.
If you need a little recap, here you go:https://t.co/WQEqvd2uGl https://t.co/UsG0gyv86O
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 2, 2020
In April 2020, Israel Defense Forces troops and Lebanese army soldiers also faced off in the same area, with photos from that rare incident showing the two sides raising weapons at each other and UN personnel standing in between.
Incredible photo shows #Lebanon vs. #Israel soldiers, guns drawn, with UN troops in between.
Per Beirut press, Israelis crossed into disputed territory today, set up tent, departed 4h later. Israeli jets/drones carrying intense activity over Lebanon past 48h.
Powder keg. pic.twitter.com/V2yJ76jx6o
— Firas Maksad (@FirasMaksad) April 14, 2020
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Brave IDF shooting an unarmed goat herder.
They were probably shooting at the kids and got him by mistake.
that becoz IDF cannot handle stone throwing kids .. so they turn to unarmed goat herder
The invading Zioterrorist massmurderers, despite all the nukes, dollars and tech transfers from US/UK/France, had to withdraw from Lebanon in 2000 and then again in 2006. Without the backing of the richest Ziocorporate regimes in the world, Hezbollah has already slapped them time and time again with its superior military prowess, so let IDF cannon fodder keep living in their Wahhabi-style extremist brainwashing from birth wonderland stories.
Those IDF Bitches should remember what happened last time they invaded Lebanon,they ran home crying.
Oh to be a soldier in Blue waving your flag steering down the barrel of an Israeli tank praying those others you are standing in the middle of , that is an interesting point on its own , don’t take a pot shot at the tin can.