3 Lebanese soldiers injured, Israeli forces erect berm in S. Lebanon

Three Lebanese soldiers were injured on Saturday while dismantling unexploded ordnance in Zawtar al-Gharbiyah, the same southern Lebanese town where Israeli forces erected a new earth berm overnight in what residents called a violation of a "pilot-area" arrangement.



The Lebanese Army Command's Guidance Directorate said in a statement that three soldiers were injured, one moderately, during the dismantling operation.



The army deployed in the town on July 21 as part of arrangements for "pilot areas" under a Lebanon-Israel framework agreement signed in late June.



Meanwhile, Lebanon's official National News Agency reported that an Israeli military force entered the town shortly after midnight, backed by several vehicles and a bulldozer, and erected an earth berm about 100 meters from the town square.