Photo Gallery Death on the Border
Israeli and Lebanese forces exchanged fire Tuesday in a border clash that left four people dead. On Wednesday, the mood was still tense. This photo shows a Lebanese checkpoint in the village of Adaisseh that was damaged in the fighting.
It was the most bloody clash between the two countries since the war between Israel and Hezbollah four years ago. Two Lebanese soldiers, a Lebanese journalist and one Israeli officer were killed.
The Israeli military used guns, tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships during Tuesday's clash. Sources close to the UN troops stationed in southern Lebanon told SPIEGEL ONLINE that the Israeli version of events was correct, namely that Lebanese soldiers had fired first.
Israeli soldiers take up position behind one of their armored vehicles near the border on Tuesday.
Israeli soldiers look through the sights of their weapons from a position in northern Israel overlooking the Israeli-Lebanese border on Tuesday.
A Lebanese civil defense worker extinguishes a burning armored vehicle at a Lebanese army base in the southern border village of Taibeh.
Several Lebanese civilians were injured in the border village of Adaisseh during the shooting.
A member of the UN peacekeeping mission UNIFIL waves a white flag Tuesday as Israeli troops patrol the border fence.
A UN soldier waves at the Israeli side of the border. Next to him is a Lebanese soldier with an anti-tank weapon.
Medics carry an injured Israeli soldier to an ambulance Tuesday.
The clashes began after Israeli troops had tried to cut down a cypress tree growing in the border area. The Israeli army insists the tree was on Israeli territory.
Smoke fills the sky above Adaisseh: Israeli shells hit the Lebanese village on Tuesday, wounding two people.
