BEIRUT, July 5 (Xinhua) -- The Lebanese army on Wednesday stopped an Israeli bulldozer backed by a military force from breaching the Blue Line by digging at the "technical fence" along the border, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.
The bulldozer was attempting to dig the road in the Karkazan area in the town of Mays el-Jabal but was forced by the Lebanese army to retreat, according to the NNA report.
A patrol of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon arrived and documented the breach, the report said.
Israel built the "technical fence" with electrified wires along the 79-km border with Lebanon in 2001, about 50 meters south of the Blue Line, a demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel published by the United Nations in 2000.
The Lebanese-Israeli border has been mostly quiet since Israel fought a month-long war with Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, in 2006. ■
