The Israeli Army announced this Sunday that it has killed four “terrorists” who had infiltrated Israeli territory, although he did not specify whether they were members of the Lebanese Shiite militia or the Palestinian militias with a presence in the south of .

Tonight, Israeli soldiers patrolling the area Har Dov (Cheba Farms) identified a terrorist cell that crossed from the Lebanon into Israeli territory and fired at the forces. The soldiers responded with live fire and the four terrorists were killed“said a military statement about the first infiltration on the northern border in three months of hostilities.

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The Army indicated that the forces fired at the cell with artillery and mortars towards that area, known internationally as Cheba Farmsa territory occupied by Israel which historically was disputed between Lebanon and Syria in the Golan Heights.

In the last three months, parallel to the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Striphostilities with Hezbollah resumed on the northern border, where an open conflict has not yet broken out but there is an almost daily exchange of fire.

In recent days, the Israeli army has attacked positions in southern Lebanon by air and ground Hezbollaha group that has launched hundreds of projectiles, such as rockets, explosive drones or anti-tank missiles towards Israel.

Before the outbreak of the war in Gazatension on the northern border in the last year has been increasing, with Hezbollah taking positions on the Blue linevery close to the border with Israel, to the point that they set up two tents with a dozen armed militiamen in that same area of ​​the Cheba Farms.

Although Israel then decided to resolve the matter through diplomatic channels and allowed them to stay there for several weeks, until Hezbollah withdrew them thanks to the mediation of the Lebanese government, the UN and USA

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The border between Israel and Lebanon is experiencing its highest peak of tension since 2006 with an intense exchange of fire for three months that has claimed the lives of at least 218 people, the majority on the Lebanese side and in the ranks of Hezbollah, which has confirmed about 160 casualties in its ranks, some of them in Syria.

In Israel, 16 people have died on the northern border, 12 soldiers and 4 civilians; while in Lebanon at least 202 people have died, including about 20 members of Palestinian militias, a soldier and 23 civilians – among them three children and three journalists – in addition to Hezbollah militiamen.

The tension reached its peak when Israel attacked a neighborhood of Beirutstronghold of Hezbollah, to kill the number two of Hamas, Saleh al Arouriand other group commanders.

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