Israel has placed mannequins dressed as soldiers in military vehicles along the border with Lebanon as the army braces for expected attacks by Hezbollah, according to local reports.

The Israeli army has been on high alert after Hezbollah promised to retaliate following an alleged drone attack on the terror group in Beirut on Sunday, as well as airstrikes on an Iranian position in Syria that killed two of its members a day earlier.

Ali Shueib, a reporter for Hezbollah’s Al-Manar news network, published photographs of several Israeli jeeps in which dummies appeared to be sitting in the front seat, the Guardian reported.

“Stop the jokes,” he said in a tweet, insisting that using dummies only reveals “‘stupidity and foolishness’ because you have not learned that you are facing men that have the intelligence, professionalism, courage, and faith to defeat.”

Separately, Or Heller, an Israeli military correspondent for Channel 10 News, published a photo of a similar-looking faux soldier in another vehicle.

The Israel Defense Forces has been known to use decoys in this manner — putting them in bunkers or sniper’s nests in a deterrence effort by tricking its enemies into thinking the positions are full of soldiers, according to the Times of Israel.

It was unclear whether the dummies may have been placed in the vehicles to lure the Shia group’s militants into firing.

The IDF refused to comment to the news outlet about the matter, saying it does respond to “foreign reports.”

On Thursday, the IDF said Hezbollah had recently been helped by Iran to manufacture precision-guided missiles within Lebanon.

Israel has threatened a harsh response to any reprisals by Hezbollah, both against the group itself and against Lebanon, which Jerusalem deems complicit in the militants’ activities.

“The Israeli response to an attack will be disproportionate,” an unnamed senior officer told Israel’s Channel 12 news late Monday.

The IDF and Hezbollah fought a deadly monthlong conflict in 2006 in which about 1,200 people in Lebanon and roughly 160 in Israel were killed.