Israeli Soldiers Cross Barbed Wire in Wazzani
Israeli troops crossed the barbed wire fence in the Wazzani area at dawn Wednesday and stayed at the river’s eastern bank for several hours before withdrawing to Israeli territories, the National News Agency reported.
NNA said an 11-member patrol crossed the fence at around 3:00 am and remained until 7:30 am near the area of al-Muntazahat.
However, the soldiers did not cross the U.N.-drawn Blue Line.
The Wazzani spring is a major source of the Hasbani river.
The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday that the Jewish state is mulling responses to the possibility that Lebanon will divert water from the Hasbani under the guise of the construction of a tourism resort near the border.
A senior Israeli army officer in the Northern Command told the newspaper that the resort, Hosn al-Wazzani, could be used to divert water from the river, which supplies 25 percent of the Jordan river’s waters.
Israel is concerned about the site’s proximity to the border, which lies not far from the Israeli town of Metulla.
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