An Israeli soldier has opened fire on a Hezbollah mural painted on a wall near the entrance of the Aadaisseh village in southern Lebanon.
"A soldier got out of his vehicle and deliberately fired at the wall bearing the inscriptions," some 20 meters (yards) from the border, a Lebanese Army spokesman told AFP on Tuesday.
He said five bullets had hit the inscription which shows the "hand of resistance", a reference to the "divine victory" Hezbollah achieved over Israel during the 33-day war Tel Aviv waged on southern Lebanon.
Israel launched an offensive against Lebanon to destroy the Hezbollah resistance power in the summer of 2006; it however was forced to eventually leave the region without achieving any of its objectives.
A statement issued by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) described the incident as a violation of UN resolution 1701 which ended the 2006 war.
Meanwhile, an Israeli army spokeswoman said "a soldier mistakenly fired his rifle" and that the military was "investigating the incident in order to prevent similar events in the future."
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