BEIRUT, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace on Thursday while Israeli forces continued to construct the border fence, Lebanese National News Agency reported.

    Several Israeli fighter jets flew Thursday afternoon over West Bekaa Valley and Lake Qaroun, which located in eastern and southeastern Lebanon, and continued to fly at low levels over a number of areas in the south, the report said.

    It added that the jets flew over the border towns of Nabatiya and Marjayoun as well as the areas of Al-Khayyam and Arqoub.

    Meanwhile, a security sources said Israeli forces continued to construct the barbed-wire fence just across from the Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona, which coincided with the operation of Israeli patrol vehicles near the borders.

    Israel went to war on Lebanon after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid on July 12. Nearly 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 157 Israelis, mostly soldiers, were killed in the 34-day conflict.

    Since the fighting ended with a shaky ceasefire on Aug. 14 brokered by the United Nations, the Israeli army has been handing over control of southern Lebanon to the UN peacekeeping forces and Lebanese troops, but Israeli soldiers still maintains 10 posts on Lebanese territories. Enditem