Israel
23 September 2023

The Israeli military reported that “IDF soldiers spotted an engineering vehicle’s shovel crossing the Blue Line from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the area of Mount Dov… In response, IDF soldiers used riot dispersal means”. Lebanon’s army asserted that Israel had “violated the withdrawal line fired smoke bombs at a Lebanese army patrol that was accompanying a bulldozer removing an earthen berm erected by the Israeli enemy north of the withdrawal line, the blue line… The Lebanese patrol responded to the attack by firing tear bombs”.

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