Photo gallery: Unrest on the border

View pictures of IDF, Lebanese Army and UN peacekeepers in North.

At least four people were reported dead Tuesday afternoon, in clashes which broke out along the northern border.

RELATED: Kiryat Shmona mayor: No need to enter bomb sheltersThe conflict reportedly began when an IDF patrol attempted to uproot a tree on the Lebanese side of the border. Initial Israeli reports had said the soldiers were on a routine patrol, operating past the border fence, but within Israeli territory, since the fence does not always exactly parallel the border.