JERUSALEM, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A day after the deadly clash between Israeli and Lebanese soldiers, a U.N. official said Israeli soldiers did not encroach into Lebanese territory.
The Lebanese Army admitted it was first to open fire, a Lebanese source told the Lebanese newspaper A-Nahar Wednesday.
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 notified the Lebanese army.
Israeli soldiers were stationed "south of the international borderline," he said.
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. UPI
