Top minister confirms Israel to keep 5 army posts in Lebanon
Israel will hold onto five strategic high points just inside Lebanon after next Tuesday’s ceasefire deadline requiring it to withdraw all troops, a top Israeli government official told U.S. news outlet Bloomberg.
The Israeli army will redeploy but retain those five positions “until Lebanon implements its treaty obligations,” Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who’s one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants, said in a telephone interview.
Dermer also said that Lebanon’s obligations do not involve pushing Hezbollah away from the border but rather removing its arms.
