On Wednesday, the Israeli army increased its violations along the blue line at several points adjacent to the towns of Mays Al-Jabal, Hula, Markaba, and Hounin, which faced resistance from the Lebanese army and local residents. Earlier today, a unit from the Lebanese army confronted an Israeli bulldozer that was clearing soil outside the technical fence, attempting to breach the blue line near a monitoring point at the borders of Mays Al-Jabal. The Lebanese army personnel prevented the hostile bulldozer from continuing its work in the Karzakan area at the northern edges of Mays Al-Jabal, forcing it to retreat amidst the presence of several Israeli military vehicles and soldiers who took cover behind trees and rocks. Additionally, a UNIFIL patrol arrived at the scene and documented the hostile violation.
In the area between the towns of Markaba and Hounin, an Israeli bulldozer, escorted by military forces, engaged in land clearing outside the technical fence. Local residents gathered and prevented the bulldozer from continuing its work, prompting Israeli forces to fire five shots into the air to intimidate the Lebanese citizens, who successfully compelled the Israeli bulldozer to operate elsewhere, away from the fence. In response to the land clearing carried out by Israeli forces in the region between Hula and the Manara settlement, which affected ancient trees on Lebanese territory, youths from the town of Hula planted 40 saplings at the site where Israel had uprooted the trees as a "message of defiance and determination" against the practices of the Israeli army and its attempts to encroach on the lands of Hula and the south.
