'(ANSAmed) - BEIRUT, AUGUST 4 - The Lebanese government has confirmed that the Israeli army did not commit a violation in yesterday's incident. Information Minister Tareq Mitri said in a press conference that the uprooting of a tree by Israel, which was interrupted yesterday and completed this morning, ''took place on the southern side of the Blue Line''.
Minister Mitri pointed out that ''on some locations the parties don't agree on the course of the Blue Line'' and that ''the intervention of UNIFIL'', the UN force deployed in the south of Lebanon, ''is required each time something happens or one of the two parties want to operate behind the line. What happened yesterday was an Israeli provocation'' the spokesman of the Lebanese government said. ''Because when the Israeli troops started working on the other side of the fence, our troops immediately asked UNIFIL to delay the operation''.
Mitri added that ''at that point UNIFIL asked the Israelis to interrupt the operation but they continued, triggering the response of our soldiers''. (ANSAmed).'
So the Lebanese government confirm that the work by Israeli soldiers took place on Israeli soil BUT that it was still a provocation.
When will people realise that to most of the governments and terrorist bodies in the Middle East the mere existence of Israel is a provocation and until Israel is destroyed will continue so to be.
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