The Lebanese army on Wednesday stopped an Israeli bulldozer backed by a military force from breaching the Blue Line by digging at the "technical fence" along the border, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.

Iran PressMiddle East: The bulldozer was attempting to dig the road in the Karkazan area in the town of Mays el-Jabal but was forced by the Lebanese army to retreat, according to the NNA report.

A patrol of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon arrived and documented the breach, the report said.

Israel built the "technical fence" with electrified wires along the 79-km border with Lebanon in 2001, about 50 meters south of the Blue Line, a demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel published by the United Nations in 2000.

The Lebanese-Israeli border has been mostly quiet since Israel fought a month-long war with Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, in 2006.

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