Israel has occupied an additional 4,000 square metres of southern Lebanese territory by constructing a section of wall north of the UN-delineated Blue Line, the UN peacekeeping mission said on Friday.
The breach comes nearly a year after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah ended months of cross-border fighting.
The UN's peacekeeping force in Lebanon, Unifil, said its observers surveyed last month “a concrete T-wall erected by the [Israeli military] south-west of Yaroun", a village in Nabatieh governorate.
Israel also occupies five other points inside Lebanese territory, which the Israeli military says it is controlling for strategic reasons following the end of last year’s war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Under the terms of a November 2024 ceasefire deal, Hezbollah was to halt attacks on Israel and Israel was to withdraw from Lebanese territory.
Unifil said it had informed the Israeli military of its findings and requested that Israel
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