Israeli pullout from Lebanon

THE Israeli army abandoned almost all of its positions in Lebanon yesterday, military officials said, fulfilling a key condition of the August 14 ceasefire that ended a month-long war against Hezbollah guerrillas.

Israeli pullout from Lebanon

The pullout ended a nearly three-month troop presence in Lebanon and cleared the way for the full deployment of an international peacekeeping force that will police the border with the Lebanese army.

There are a small number of Israeli troops still in a divided village which straddles the Lebanon-Israel border, but UN officials said they expected these to leave by the end of the week.

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