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The Israeli cabinet has authorized the pull-out from one of the most sensitive locations along the border with Lebanon, the village of Ghajar. Control of the territory would then be transferred to the UNIFIL, which would also be responsible for preventing terrorists and criminals from crossing through the village.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A senior United Nations official said Monday he would travel to Israel soon to seek an early Israeli withdrawal from parts of a village on the border with Lebanon in line with a Security Council resolution. An Israeli government official said Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu favoured an Israeli withdrawal from the Lebanese parts of Ghajar village and would discuss the issue with his cabinet ministers this week. Alain Le Roy, U.N. under secretary-general, said during a visit to a south Lebanon base of the U.N. peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, that Israel was obliged to withdraw from the...

BEIRUT: Senior US diplomats are planning to persuade the Israeli government to pull troops out of Lebanese territory in the border village of Ghajar before parliamentary elections in June, media reports have said. Jeffrey Feltman, a state department official and former US ambassador to Lebanon, will try to convince the new Israeli government to withdraw from the village before Lebanon goes to the polls, according to a report in the Al-Balad daily. The newspaper quotes diplomatic sources who describe the planned deal as a "gift to Premier Fouad Siniora" ahead of the polls, which are finely balanced between the March...

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