Beirut: An Israeli force crossed the Lebanese border on Wednesday and seized a goat herd belonging to a Lebanese citizen, Lebanon's National News Agency NNA said.
The development prompted residents from the southern border towns of Kfarshouba and Hilta to stage a sit-in outside the post of the Indian U.N. peacekeeping force in the Bustra Farm to press United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon UNIFIL to seek the return of the herd, the agency added.
NNA had reported earlier that Israel abducted the flock to the occupied Shebaa Farms after the goats crossed the border of the occupied region.
Tensions have recently surged along the Lebanese-Israeli border, especially in Shebaa, after Hizbullah attacked an Israeli patrol in retaliation to Israel's December assassination in Syria of its top operative Samir al-Quntar. (
QNA
