Lebanese army vehicles and bulldozers could be seen moving for the first time into the farm, which lies some 300 meters away from other farms, which Israel has occupied for more than 40 years.
A road has been reconstructed to link this new position to other Lebanese army posts in the southeast of the country.
Israel captured the 25-square-kilometers of land on the Israel-Lebanon-Syria border as part of the Syrian Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it along with the rest of the strategic plateau.
Lebanon today claims sovereignty over the territory with Syrian approval.
Army battles gunmen in North & South
An Army patrol clashed with gunmen in a vehicle speeding across the southern Jiyeh coastal town on Friday, wounding two people, a police report said.
Hospital sources identified the wounded as Mohammed Shawish and Fatima Matar.
Two other passengers who were traveling in the vehicle also were arrested and turned over to a police patrol, the report added.
The army patrol had chased the car, a BMW-520, at 8:45 am because its passengers were "opening fire sporadically," according to the report.
"When ordered to pull over, fire was shot at the patrol, which responded in kind, wounding Shawish and Matar," the report explained.
The two were admitted to Labib Hospital in the southern port city of Sidon and the unidentified passengers were held for questioning.
A police official expressed belief that the clash was "not politically motivated."
Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army bolstered its troops in Tripoli and deployed in the contested districts of Baal Mohsen and Bab Tabbaneh with orders to "firmly confront" whoever sparks clashes.
A communique released by the army command also urged all factions to practice "self restraint and refrain from responding to the sources of fire."
It said tackling such violations as opening fire would be handled by "the military forces."
The deployment plan, according to the communique, followed an agreement between Tripoli's spiritual and political leaders to "immediately halt violations that target security and safety of the population."
Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanese Army, Shebaa Farms, source: Naharnet, source: Now Lebanon, Syria
