Israel Beefs Up Security Measures along Border with Lebanon

The Israeli army stepped up security measures on Wednesday along its border with Lebanon and the Golan Heights, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The NNA said that Israeli armored personnel carriers deployed heavily in the occupied Shebaa Farms and the Golan Heights.

The deployment was accompanied by the hovering of helicopters.

Simultaneously, Israeli drones flew over several towns in southern Lebanon, reaching Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh).

On Tuesday, a bomb along the Syria-Israel frontier in the occupied Golan Heights wounded four Israeli soldiers.

Israel retaliated on Wednesday overnight with warplanes that struck Syrian army positions.

It was one of several incidents this month on Israel's northern borders with Syria and Lebanon.

Israel said Friday it shelled a position belonging to Hizbullah inside Lebanon, in response to a blast targeting its troops along the border.

And the army said on March 5 it had opened fire on and hit two Hizbullah members as they tried to plant a bomb near the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line.

Hizbullah, which supports the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, has threatened to retaliate after an air raid in February, in what was first reported Israeli strike on the group inside Lebanon since a devastating 2006 summer war between the arch-foes.

There was no immediate indication that Hizbullah was involved in Tuesday's blast.