Israelis tried to prune a Cypress tree in their territory near the Lebanese border.
In the resulting attack by the Lebanese army, 5 people died, including a high ranking Israeli officer and a Lebanese journalist.
The UN (UNIFIL) people in the area back the Israeli contention that the tree was clearly on their side of the border and the attack was unwarranted, but that doesn't matter to Hezbollah.
The one factor that may excuse Lebanon for claiming the tree is that the "border" fence is not on the official border so the Israeli performing the trimming operation was on a crane, leaning over the fence.
That does not make it OK for either side to start shooting and one wonders why the Lebanese would not also want the area cleared to prevent people sneaking into or out of Lebanon.
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