The Lebanese army detected an Israeli spy device in a liberated part of Lebanese land along the occupied Shebaa Farms, the Army Command Orientation directorate said in a statement on Saturday.

“On September 9, 2016 an army task force discovered a spy device that belongs to the Israeli enemy inside liberated Lebanese lands near the occupied Shebaa Farms. An army patrol headed to the location and found that the Israeli enemy has already removed the device and moved it inside occupied lands,” said the statement.

The Israeli breach is being followed up by the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon, it added.

In January, a vulture was captured in the southern town of Bint Jbeil in Lebanon on suspicion of spying for Israel.

Images of the vulture shared on social media appeared to show the bird with an Israeli identification ring and location transmitter.

Israel and Lebanon are technically at war and the UNIFIL peacekeepers monitor their disputed border.