Barak announces evacuation of a position at Shebaa farms
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2000

Lebanon's people and government have renewed their commitment to restoring back the Shebaa farms, while Israel still refuses form these farms, according to UN resolution 425.

Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who met on Sunday with members of his government tried to raise the morale of the Israelis in making statements on his readiness to withstand what he called the emergency situations after the withdrawal of the Israeli army from South Lebanon.

Barak said the Israeli army will open fire for self-defense and that his forces only withdrew from the Lebanese part of Shebaa farms, as he claimed, SANA reported.

Meantime, Israeli sources said that Barak is seeking at the meantime to have the UN Security Council release a resolution certifying that Israel has completed its withdrawal from South Lebanon.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced it has redeployed its forces in a position near Shebaa farms in South Lebanon. The Israeli army evacuated Fereed position on the slopes of Jabal al-Sheikh off the Shebaa farms.

The Israeli army radio admitted that the evacuation decision came to avoid the occurrence of confrontation with the Lebanese national resistance.

In this respect, a high ranking officer in UNIFIL said that there are differences on seven border points with the Israeli side of the borders with Lebanon, while the UN chief delegate Terry Larsen expressed his complete satisfaction over Lebanon's co-operation with the Un in the South.

Larsen's statements were made before he left for Israel to meet with the Israeli foreign minister David Levy.

Meantime, Lebanon states by its representative at the UN, that it will not give up demanding its right to Shebaa farms. The Lebanese delegate said that Lebanon has documents which prove his rights to the farms and these documents were submitted to the UN.

On the other side of the borders where fear prevails the " Kreyat Shemona settlement, the largest settlements in North Israel, the Israeli army on Sunday used live bullet to keep the Lebanese people apart from the fence Israel erected along the international borders with Lebanon.

The Israeli radio said that members of one Israeli position opened fire on the Lebanese at the fence at the pretext that the Lebanese were chanting slogans against Israel and its agents, of whom some 60 returned back to Lebanon despite Israel's decision to give them passports and temporary work licenses inside Israel.

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