What triggered the Incident?
Lebanon claimed that it was an Israeli incursion across its border to cut down a tree to facilitate the monitoring of Lebanese territories through surveillance equipment that triggered the incident. While the Israeli army did admit that it was on the border conducting “overt and covert operations, which include mainly infrastructure work aimed at minimizing the weak spots Hezbollah can utilize,” it claimed that it remained within Israel’s boundaries during such operations. Did Israeli Forces Cross the Border? An image showing Israeli soldiers reaching over the border-fence to cut down the tree initially seems like a pretty strong indictment, until one realizes that the security fence doesn’t mark the official border between Israel and Lebanon. As veteran Middle East journalist Robert Fisk put it, the problem is that “no one is exactly sure where the Lebanese-Israeli border is.” But while there is no mutually agreed-on line defining the official border (the tree area in question is in d
