"JERUSALEM -- Israel intensified controversial military flights over the Lebanon border Thursday but stressed that it wanted no escalation after Israeli and Lebanese soldiers traded fire for the first time in decades.
"We are going to continue our flights and even bolster our aerial activities our Lebanon," General Alon Friedman told public radio hours after the exchange on the volatile Israeli-Lebanese border.
Israeli aircraft flew over the border zone Thursday, in operations that the United Nations has previously warned undermine the "credibility" of its peacekeepers and Lebanese soldiers, and "compromise" stabilizing efforts."
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