Lebanon claims Israel encroaching with barbed-wire

UN peacekeepers today asked Israel’s army to pull down a new barbed-wire barrier that Lebanon said encroached on its territory, a UN spokesman said.

Alexander Ivanko, a spokesman for the UNIFIL peacekeeping force, said new wire coils were put up in Lebanese territory between the northern Israeli village of Metulla and Kfar Kila, a town in southern Lebanon.