ARABS-UN - July 28 - South Lebanon Deployment Suspended.UN troops stop moving into the former Israeli-occupied border zone in southern Lebanon
Yaroun occupies a hill with elevation ranging from 750 to 800 meters above sea level. and Al Manara - in the central sector of the zone - barely 2 km from the Israeli border. But after the Lebanese government complains that Israeli troops remained in one key area on the disputed border, the operation is suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. . (The Lebanese Government has previously prevented UN troops from going in because of doubts over whether the Israeli army had fully withdrawn behind the international border.) Earlier about 50 UN soldiers from Ireland Ireland, Irish Eire (âr`ə) [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles. and Ghana drive down to the border fence near Al Manara to take up temporary positions. They are met by Israeli forces erecting their own barbed wire barbed wire, wire composed of two zinc-coated steel strands twisted together and having barbs spaced regularly along them. The need for barbed wire arose in the 19th cent. border. Although the dispute around Al Manara area now seems to have been settled, a wider deployment is halted after Lebanese authorities complain of another similar border violation. |
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