UN troops erect barbed wire on Lebanon-Israel border

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HASBAYA, Lebanon (AFP) — UN peacekeepers in Lebanon began on Friday erecting a barbed-wire fence along the border with Israel to prevent breaches of the "Blue Line" aimed at keeping peace between the two neighbours.

"UNIFIL soldiers began laying the barbed-wire fence in the area north of the (border) village of Ghajar," Yasmina Bouziane, spokeswoman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, told AFP.

About 50 Spanish peacekeepers are installing the barbed wire fence north of the so-called "Blue Line", set up by the United Nations eight years ago to keep the peace between the two neighbours, an AFP correspondent said.

The plotting of the Blue Line in 2000 by the United Nations when Israel withdrew its forces from Lebanon, placed a third of the village...