Israeli moves and military build ups, coincided with violations for the Lebanese airspace
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 8/16/2003

The Israeli warplanes yesterday flew in the airspace of the occupied Shebaa farms and the adjoining al-Arqoub villages.

Lebanese security sources said that Israeli helicopters flew over the farms line and the north of the occupied Golan for half an hour as from 7 a.m. in the morning.

An intensive move for the Israeli military vehicles were observed at al-Ghajar - al-Abbaseyah access and in particular, on foot patrol were seen at the southern eastern entrance of al-Ghajar town and in the area overlooking al-Wazzani river water course where one of the patrols monitors the resorts area by telescopes.

An Israeli on foot patrol, yesterday crossed what is called the blue line in al-Ghajar town for 200 meters to the north and returned back after half an hour towards the monitoring area in the western side of the town which witnessed active building up activities.

Israeli moves were also seen in the area between Ramtha and al-Sammaqa positions in the Shebaa farms and a series of explosions were heard inside the occupied farms seemed to be Israeli military training.

The guidance directorate in the leadership of the Lebanese army said that an Israeli reconnaissance broke into the airspace of south Lebanon on Thursday over Sidon and Beirut and returned back towards the sea off al-Naqoura town.

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