Israeli Forces Begin Withdrawal from Lebanese Border Village
07 November 2006
Israeli troops are withdrawing from most of a divided village on the Lebanese border Tuesday.
In a statement, the commander of United Nations' peacekeepers in Lebanon said Israeli troops were to pull out from most of by early Tuesday evening local time.
When completed, the pullout will put all Israeli forces behind an internationally demarcated truce line for the first time since the end of a 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas in August.
A U.N. Security Council resolution requires a complete Israeli pullout from Lebanon, as international peacekeepers deploy in the country.
In a separate development, U.N. examiners say initial findings show no evidence that Israel used toxic ammunition known as depleted uranium shells against Hezbollah.
Israel had denied a British news report alleging that it used the radioactive weaponry on Hezbollah.
Experts say such munitions contaminate land and cause grave illness among users, the armies they target, and civilians, leading to birth defects in children.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.
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