Heavy fighting was reported Monday in southern Lebanon, as Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters fired rocket-propelled grenades at an Israeli army patrol in the security zone.
There were no reports of injuries.
In response, troops from the Israel Defense Force and the South Lebanon Army shelled Jabal al-Dahr, a mountainous region used by the fundamentalist Hezbollah movement to launch attacks on the southern Lebanon security zone.
Israeli helicopters also bombarded infiltration routes used by the gunmen to enter the security zone.
Meanwhile, sources in Lebanon said Israeli gunboats fired on Lebanese fishing boats of the port of Tyre. Fishermen were fired on after they ventured less than a mile from the coast, reports said.
The fishermen claimed that Israel has reimposed a naval blockade of Lebanon’s southern ports.
Israel imposed a blockade off the coast of Lebanon in mid-February. It lasted for one month before begin lifted.
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