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Beirut:
Hezbollah said it had “targeted” Israeli troops making “movements” near the Lebanese border on Tuesday, with a source close to the group saying troops were “right on the border” as fears of infiltration grew.
The militant group said it targeted the movement of enemy troops in gardens in front of Adisi and Kafarkila near the border.
The US State Department has previously said that Israel is conducting limited operations to target Hezbollah inside Lebanon.
A Lebanese security official reported “movements of Israeli troops on the southern Lebanese border”.
The official, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said Israeli troops were “firing artillery shells from areas it described as closed military zones”.
Fears of infiltration also forced Lebanon’s army to withdraw troops from its southern border, a Lebanese military official told AFP on Monday.
The official, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said the Lebanese army was “reorganizing and reorganizing” the forces along the southern border.
Lebanon’s national army is weaker than the military might of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
On Monday evening, Hezbollah’s al-Manar television channel reported “Zionist artillery shelling” near the border areas of Wazni, Wadi Khayyam, Alma al-Shaab and Naqra.
Vazani and Khayyam are just across from Metula in the north of Israel, where the army declared a closed military zone in Metula, Misgaon Am and Kfar Giladi on Monday.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported “continuing artillery fire” on border areas including Wazani and nearby Marjaun plains and Khayyam.
Last Friday, the Israeli army killed Hezbollah’s powerful leader Hassan Nasrallah in an attack on the group’s southern Beirut stronghold.
Since last week, Israel has launched a heavy bombing campaign on the country’s eastern, southern and southern Beirut suburbs, killing hundreds and displacing up to a million, according to Lebanese officials.
The fighting comes nearly a year after a cross-border exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah, which the Lebanese group says is supporting Palestinian ally Hamas, whose October 7 attack on Israel The war started in Gaza.
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