LEBANON: ISRAELI JEEPS CONTINUE PATROLLING DISPUTED SHEBAA FARMS AREA.

Record ID: 399079

  • Title: LEBANON: ISRAELI JEEPS CONTINUE PATROLLING DISPUTED SHEBAA FARMS AREA.
  • Date: 28th May 2000
  • Summary: SHEBAA, LEBANON (MAY 28, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. TV/TV/PAN: SHEBAA AREA/ ROCKY HILLSIDES/ ISRTAELI JEEP DRIVING/ UN FLAG AT UNIFIL POST ON THE LEBANESE SIDE OF BORDER (2 SHOTS) 0.16 2. TV/GV ZOOM OUT/LV: ISRAELI BORDER MARKED BY BARBED WIRE FENCING (2 SHOTS) 0.40 3. TV/GV: GOATS ROAMING THE HILLSIDES ON THE LEBANESE SIDE OF BORDER (2 SHOTS) 0.56
  • Embargoed: 12th June 2000 13:00
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  • Location: SHEBAA, BORDER, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA4ED3PB0HGWYDKAPPGFJQZZE0T
  • Story Text: Shebaa Farms, a remote, barren plot at the foot of
    the Golan Heights, is at the centre of a dispute between the
    United Nations and Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas who have
    warned that they will continue battling Israel unless it withdraws
    from the area.

    Despite incessant rumours that Israel has left the area,
    Israeli jeeps on Sunday (May 28) were patrolling the disputed
    plateau known as Shebaa Farms.

    The border was fenced off by barbed wire.Goats roamed the rocky sunbaked hillside which has virtually no residents.

    The U.N.had said it was willing to confirm Israel's pullout from southern Lebanon complete even if it did not quit Shebaa, which the Jewish state claims it had seized from Syria and not Lebanon.when it occupied the Golan Heights in 1967.

    Hizbollah said it would consider the Israeli withdrawal from the
    south incomplete until the area is handed over to Lebanon.Lebanon
    and its political master Syria insist the area is Lebanese.


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