The Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers on Monday carried out patrols along the border with Israel amid a high alert in the area, mainly near the occupied Shebaa Farms, a day after Israel's deadly air strike on Hizbullah members in Syria.
The state-run National News Agency said Lebanese troops and UNIFIL patrolled the southern border while Israel stopped its patrols along the technical fence and intensified them one to two kilometers deep into Israeli territory.
There was high alert in the South in general after at least six Hizbullah members were killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike in an area known as Mazraat al-Amal on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
Israel seized part of the mountainous Golan Heights plateau from Syria during the 1967 Mideast war.
Despite the alert, UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti described the situation in the peacekeepers' area of operations as “normal.”