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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Fired on Israel
JINSA Report
#: 1,011
03 August '10
It wasn't Hezbollah; it was the LAF that killed one Israeli officer and seriously wounded another. It wasn't in Lebanon; it was in Israel that they were attacked.
The IDF had notified the UNIFIL liaison that it would be working on the Israeli side of the Blue Line - the international border accepted by the UN Security Council in June 2000 - clearing brush to ensure that there had been no Hezbollah infiltration and removing a tree with a crane. The work was routine and UNIFIL routinely notified the LAF. And the LAF fired on the IDF. After giving UNIFIL time to get out of the way, the IDF attacked a LAF brigade headquarters. Three Lebanese soldiers and a journalist were killed.
What seems to have confused a lot of people who jumped to say Israel was in Lebanese territory is this photograph that shows an Israeli crane reaching beyond a fence that they misconstrue as the border. They are wrong; it is not the border. Inside the Blue Line, Israel has built what it calls the "technical fence." The space between the fence and the Blue Line is Israel, simply Israel - not occupied territory, not Lebanon, not no-man's land, not Hezbollahland. Just Israel. The tree was in Israel, the crane was in Israel, the soldiers were in Israel.
It bears emphasis because the attack was only the latest in a string of attacks on Israeli territory from outside its borders.
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