The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) discovered explosive devices along the country's northern border with Lebanon on Monday, local daily Ha'aretz reported on its website.

According to the report, the IDF believed that the five explosive devices found on Monday were placed recently by the Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas.

Ha'aretz said that Israeli engineering troops found the devices some meters north of the fence demarcating the Blue Line, international border between Israel and Lebanon.

The explosive devices were detonated and a formal complaint was filed to the United Nations peace-keeping forces in Lebanon afterwards.

It will be the first such incident since the Israel-Hezbollah conflict reached an ceasefire on Aug. 14, 2006.

On July 12, 2006, two Israeli soldiers were captured by the Hezbollah militia, after a bomb exploded and severely damaged their vehicle. The abductions then ignited a 34-day war that claimed at least 1,200 Lebanese and 162 Israelis.

After the UN-brokered ceasefire was declared, the United Nations has reinforced the peace-keeping troops deployed along the Israel-Lebanon border to ensure the maintenance of the truce.

The ceasefire also made it possible for the Lebanese army to be deployed into the southern area of Lebanon, which used to be dominated by the Hezbollah militants.

According to another Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's military officials held the Lebanese government responsible for any Hezbollah infrastructure found on the border line, vowing to continue patrol in the area in order to neutralize any possible threat.

Source: Xinhua