Lebanon
“I hope that this choice will contribute towards stability … and to good neighborly relations,” Sa’ar said.
The Israeli military detected suspects loading weapons onto the vehicle from former Hezbollah bases.
IDF OC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin reportedly warned of continued Hezbollah influence and potential rocket fire.
U.S. Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers praised the Lebanese Armed Forces, particularly commending the engineer corps for safely handling unexploded ordnance.
“These withdrawals will continue until all Israeli forces are out of Lebanon completely,” Amos Hochstein said.
The Biden envoy is to chair a meeting of the international monitoring mechanism.
The package incentivizes the repopulation by March 7 of 60,000 people who left at-risk communities near the Lebanese border for state-funded hotels.
The visit comes amid reports that Israel is planning to delay its withdrawal from Lebanon, and days before the Lebanese Parliament is to elect a new president.
The terrorists’ repeated violations of the ceasefire and the Lebanese Armed Forces’ slow deployment to the region have raised concerns in Jerusalem.
Official travel within the area will still require approval from the embassy’s security office.
The rescue this past year of Israeli hostages Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan and Andrei Kozlov began Israel’s ascendant trajectory.
“In the past, I was always only stationed up to the border.”
