On Tuesday, an Israeli officer and three soldiers from the Lebanese army and a Lebanese civilian were killed and an Israeli officer and a number of Lebanese civilians wounded, when clashes erupted between the sides.
 

Speaking on Army Radio, Milos Strugar, a senior adviser for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, said Israel had informed them of the maintenance work near the border fence, and they in turn had informed the Lebanese army.
 

 Israeli soldiers were stationed “south of the international borderline,” he said Wednesday.
 

Strugar said the information concerning the incident was preliminary and hoped to receive a more extensive report of the sequence of events during the day.
 

"We deal with complaints on provocations of Lebanese soldiers against IDF units on a daily basis," Strugar told Army Radio, adding incidents occur "almost every day, there's a lot of tension round the border, but what happened is the worst incident since 2006,” he said.
 

Meanwhile, Israeli military officials said Wednesday, the fact that journalists and photographers were present on the Lebanese side of the border before the violence erupted,  proves that the incident had been planned in advance.
 

One of those killed was Assaf Abu Rahal, a journalist who worked for the Hezbollah affiliated Beirut daily al-Akhbar. Another journalist from Hezbollah’s Al Manar satellite station was wounded.
 

The two Israeli officers were supervising the maintenance work from a position approximately 100 meters from the border when they were shot at by a sniper from the Lebanese village Adayysseh. Lt. Col. Dov Harari was shot in the head and died of his wounds shortly after and Capt. Ezra Lakiya was shot in the stomach.