The isolated incident the occurred in south Lebanon on Tuesday – the explosion of a device attributed to Israel by the local media – offered a reminder of the fluidity and sensitivity of the situation there.

According to reports from Lebanon, a bulldozer doing routine construction work accidentally hit an Israeli listening post near the town of Marjayoun, which served as headquarters for the Israeli troops stationed in south Lebanon until Israel unilaterally withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. The resultant explosion injured two people.

This wasn’t the first incident of its kind. The Lebanese have reported uncovering what they described as Israeli listening posts several times in the past. In one case, in September 2014, a Hezbollah sapper was killed trying to dismantle such a facility, apparently because it was booby-trapped with explosives.

The basic situation in Lebanon hasn’t changed in three years. Hezbollah is up to its neck in the Syrian civil war, where it continues to expend fighters and other resources in an effort to preserve the Assad regime, on orders from its Iranian patron. Thus it’s currently hard to see any reason why Hezbollah would seek a military confrontation with Israel; the life-and-death battle for Assad’s future has top priority. Nor does Israel have any interest in a military conflict with Hezbollah right now.

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