On the Border
You think tensions aren't high along the Israel / Lebanon border? Today five people were killed when Israeli soldiers were simply trying to remove a tree along a border fence.
Lebanon, Israel troops clash on border http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6721ET20100803
Three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli officer have been killed in the first serious border clash since Israel's 2006 conflict with Lebanon's Hezbollah. A Lebanese journalist also died in the fighting.
Lebanon says troops opened fire after Israeli troops entered its territory. Israel denied the charge. PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would respond "aggressively" to any attack. Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said militants would not "stand idle" if Israel attacked again...
...The Lebanese army says Israeli soldiers crossed the border to uproot a tree which was blocking their view near the Lebanese village of Adaysseh...
...In a statement, Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Lebanese sovereignty had been violated. However, UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon said later on Tuesday there was no evidence that Israeli soldiers had crossed the border, the BBC's Wyre Davies reports.
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Israel threatens to retaliate against attacks on three fronts
Military experts fear that a new war in southern Lebanon would be more devastating than the last, due to a number of long-range Scud missiles that Hezbollah is believed to have acquired from Syria.
Israeli officials said that they also were concerned that they could be fighting a war on two fronts as violence along their southern border was attributed to Gaza-based Palestinian militants.
Netanyahu has received reports that if Israel goes to war in the north, militants in Gaza are likely to strike at Israeli targets while the IDF was distracted elsewhere
Read more here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/04/1761769/israel-threatens-to-retaliate.html
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