Around three bulldozers, a dredger and 30 soldiers backed by four Merkava tanks and three Humvees began the operations in the early morning hours in an area that oversees the Muntazahat area near the Wazzani River, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported on Thursday.
The move comes in a strategic region along the border that stretches from the western side of the southern Lebanese village of Ghajar to al-Hamari.
In another related development, Israeli troops carried out military drills on the other side of the border in an area between the southern villages of Mais al-Jabal and Blida.
The war game prompted the Lebanese army to go on alert and the Nepalese contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) carried out patrols in the area.
Officials in Beirut have expressed concern over Israel’s intensified military movements along the Lebanese border.
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