Report says Israel will leave Ghajar in Jan.

Israeli forces will evacuate the northern part of the border village of Ghajar at the end of January 2010 according to a deal between UNIFIL and Tel Aviv.

Lebanon's leading Arabic-language daily newspaper, An-Nahar, quoting well-informed US sources, reported on Tuesday that Israeli troops will pull out from the Lebanese side of the village in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1701 based on a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) plan.

According to the plan, the United Nations will deploy 12 peacekeepers in addition to a Lebanese officer and three other Lebanese soldiers from the northern part of the village of Ghajar if the Israeli pullout does not affect the daily lives of the village's residents.

The condition stipulates that the residents should be able to move between the northern and southern sides of the village without any difficulty.

Israel would also provide Ghajar residents with water and electricity, which is a point that Lebanon accepted because its priority is an Israeli pullout from the village.

Israel is obliged to withdraw from the northern part of Ghajar by UN Resolution 1701 that ended the 33-day war between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah in 2006. However, Israel has maintained a military presence in Ghajar since the end of the 33-day war. Israeli soldiers have also set up a security fence to control entry to the village.

Ghajar lies at the foot of Mount Hermon and straddles the Lebanese-Syrian border. It is an extension of Syria's Golan Heights, which Israel occupied during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and then annexed in 1981. One-third of the village is on Lebanese soil, while the other two-thirds is part of Syrian territory.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114926§ionid=351020203.