US envoy says Israeli forces begin pullout from 2nd Lebanon town ...Kuwait

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Amos Hochstein said Israeli forces began withdrawing on Monday from a south Lebanon border town more than halfway into a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

27 November ceasefire and came after United Nations peacekeepers and Lebanon's prime minister late last month called on the Israeli army to speed up its withdrawal from Lebanon's south.

stepped up its bombing campaign and later sent troops into Lebanon following nearly a year of exchanges of cross-border fire initiated by Hezbollah over the war in Gaza.

Lebanese army is to deploy alongside United Nations peacekeepers in the south as the Israeli army withdraws over a 60-day period.

'On the right track'

Litani River, about 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the border, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south.

UNIFIL, whose headquarters is in Naqura.

AFP that it "operates according to the directive of the political echelon and is committed to the understanding in regards to the ceasefire conditions".

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