Visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein said Israeli forces began withdrawing Monday from a south Lebanon border town more than halfway into a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
It is the second such pullout since a November 27 ceasefire, and came after United Nations peacekeepers and Lebanon's prime minister late last month had called on the Israeli army to speed up its withdrawal from Lebanon's south.
"These withdrawals will continue until all Israeli forces are out of Lebanon completely, and as the Lebanese army continues to deploy into the south and to the Blue Line," he added after meeting with parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri, an ally of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.Israel in September stepped up its bombing campaign and later sent troops into Lebanon following nearly a year of exchanges of cross-border fire initiated by Hezbollah over the war in Gaza.
Hezbollah is to pull its forces north of the Litani River -- about 30 kilometers from the border -- and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south. On his first visit to Lebanon, since the truce he helped broker came into effect, Hochstein also urged political consensus in Lebanon ahead of a presidential vote later this week.
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