Israel to Pull Last Lebanon Troops by Weekend
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Israel is clearly reluctant to stay much longer in southern Lebanon, even though U.N. troops are still short.
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Israeli troops could pull back from several West Bank cities within days, pending the outcome of further talks with the new Palestinian leadership, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Sunday.
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Israel said Friday that it had begun to redeploy troops in Gaza and remove some of them altogether as it scales back its 17-day military operation in the northern Gaza
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Israeli forces crossed from southern Lebanon on Sunday to begin the last phase of their withdrawal under a U.N. resolution to end a war with Hizbollah guerrillas, an Israeli security source said.
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Israel bombarded Lebanon for a sixth day   on Monday and dismissed as premature a U.N. proposal for an   international peacekeeping force to help end the worst fighting   across the Israeli-Lebanese border in more than 20 years.
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Israel's defense minister said Monday that barring isolated skirmishes with Hezbollah, the U.N.-imposed cease-fire is holding in southern Lebanon, and Israel is coordinating with the United Nations to relinquish captured territory.
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Israel's defense minister said Sunday that Israel would accept a temporary international force, preferably headed by NATO, deployed along the Lebanese border to keep Hezbollah guerrillas away from Israel.
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MOSHAV ZARIT, Israel, Oct. 1 -- Israeli military officials said the army withdrew the last of its troops from Lebanon early Sunday, fulfilling a key condition of the cease-fire that ended a month-long war with the radical Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah.
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Backed by tanks, Israeli troops battled their way to a key Hezbollah stronghold in south Lebanon on Monday, seizing a hilltop in heavy fighting and capturing two guerrillas. The U.S. completed its evacuation of 12,000 Americans and said it would switch to bringing in humanitarian aid.
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U.N. peacekeepers have advised the Lebanese government that Israel will complete a troop pullout from south Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese officials said on Saturday.
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Israel agreed Sunday to halt air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike that killed at least 56 Lebanese, mostly women and children, when it leveled a building where they had taken shelter.
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TYRE, Lebanon  - Civilians fled battered villages   in southern Lebanon on Monday after Israel said it would halt   its air strikes but the Jewish state pledged to step up its   offensive to root out Hizbollah guerrillas.
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Israel is prepared to withdraw troops from Palestinian areas well ahead of its planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank next summer, its defense minister said, signaling that a deadly attack on an Israeli army outpost has not derailed peace efforts.
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Israel has begun thinning out its troops in southern Lebanon and plans hand over the first of its captured positions to the Lebanese army on Wednesday, the army said.
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The Israeli army is preparing to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon by Sunday morning, defense officials said.
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JERUSALEM -- Nearly two months after the rest of its army left southern Lebanon, Israel agreed yesterday to pull its few dozen remaining soldiers from the Lebanese part of a village divided by the border, yielding control to UN peacekeepers.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday the fighting in Lebanon would end when the two soldiers captured by Hezbollah guerrillas are freed, rocket attacks on Israel have stopped, and the Lebanese army is deployed along the border.