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| Troops shot on Israel-Lebanon border | Troops shot on Israel-Lebanon border |
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| The Israeli army has shot two Lebanese soldiers after an Israeli soldier was killed by a Lebanese army sniper, the Israeli military has said. | |
| An Israeli army spokeswoman said Israeli troops opened fire after noticing "suspicious movement". | An Israeli army spokeswoman said Israeli troops opened fire after noticing "suspicious movement". |
| There is no word on their condition and Lebanon has not yet commented. | There is no word on their condition and Lebanon has not yet commented. |
| The shooting came after the 31-year-old Israeli soldier was fatally wounded when his vehicle was hit by up to seven shots fired from Lebanon. | |
| The cross-border violence is the most serious since 2010, when an Israeli officer was shot dead by a Lebanese army sniper, sparking clashes in which three Lebanese soldiers were killed. | The cross-border violence is the most serious since 2010, when an Israeli officer was shot dead by a Lebanese army sniper, sparking clashes in which three Lebanese soldiers were killed. |
| The latest shootings began when gunfire from the Lebanese side hit Master Sergeant Shlomi Cohen near the Rosh Hanikra border crossing on Sunday evening. | |
| Sgt Cohen was rushed to hospital, where he died from his injuries. | |
| Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman Major Arye Shalicar told AFP news agency: "After the incident, we reached the area to conduct searches as part of the investigation, and saw two suspects on the other side of the border. | |
| "We shot at them, and saw we hit at least one. We think they were Lebanese soldiers... involved in the shooting of the soldier," he said. | |
| The Lebanese army has not officially commented on either incidents. | |
| Another IDF spokesman, Lt Col Peter Lerner, said Israel had "protested this outrageous breach of Israel's sovereignty" to the UN's border peacekeeping force Unifil. | |
| "We will not tolerate aggression against the State of Israel, and maintain the right to exercise self-defence against perpetrators of attacks against Israel and its civilians," Col Lerner said. | |
| UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said both sides were "co-operating with the United Nations... to ascertain the facts", and urged Israel and Lebanon to exercise restraint. | |
| There has been sporadic cross-border violence since 2006, when Israel and the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah fought a month-long war. | |
| Hezbollah, which has been pre-occupied by the conflict in Syria, does not appear to be involved in Sunday's attack, says the BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Jerusalem. |