ISRAELI forces shelled a southern Lebanese border village today after several explosions were heard in a disputed area where the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel meet.

Tensions continue to flare in the border area over two tents erected by resistance group Hezbollah and Israel’s building of a wall around the Lebanese part of a village that Israeli troops captured during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

A Lebanese military official said one rocket was fired toward Israel from the border town of Kfar Chouba and that Israeli forces responded with two rocket attacks.

The Israeli Defence Forces first said a Lebanese rocket landed in Israeli territory near the border and that Israeli forces have since shelled parts of Kfar Chouba.

It was unclear who fired the rocket from Lebanon. Neither the Lebanese army nor the peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL immediately commented on the explosions.

Minutes after the explosions, Hezbollah issued a statement about Israel’s wall in the village of Ghajar. 

“It is not just a routine breach of what the occupation forces are accustomed to from time to time,” the statement said. 

As part of the United Nations security council resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel is supposed to withdraw from the northern part of Ghajar, which has not happened. 

UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon have long called on Israel to end its building work in northern Ghajar and to withdraw its troops.

Lebanese soldiers in Mays al-Jabal, another border town, obstructed an Israeli bulldozer accompanied by Israeli soldiers on Wednesday that reached over the technical fence to remove plants and trees from the Lebanese side.

The tense standoff did not result in any clashes.

Israel captured the areas around Chebaa Farms and Kfar Chouba from Syria during the 1967 six-day war, and are part of Syria’s Golan Heights that Israel annexed in 1981.