Despite the truce agreement, Israel will keep troops in Lebanon: ‘Defend Israelis’

“We need to stay at these points at the moment to defend Israeli citizens, to ensure that this process is completed and, finally, to deliver it to the Lebanese armed forces,” the military spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, said at a meeting at a meeting With reporters, adding that the measure was in accordance with the ceasefire mechanism.

He stated that the places are close to Israeli communities or occupy strategic points overlooking Israeli cities such as Metula, at the northernmost point of Israel.

“Basically, the security situation is very, very complex,” he said.

A libanese authority and two foreign diplomats said the Israeli troops would probably leave villages in southern Lebanon, but would remain at observation points to reassure residents of northern Israel, who are expected to return home on March 1.

Tens of thousands of people were displaced from northern Israel by Hezbollah rocket shots and more than one million people in Lebanon fled Israeli air strikes in the lasted war and occurred in parallel to the Gaza War.

The fighting ended in late November with a truce that ordered the removal of the Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, leaving the Hezbollah combatants and weapons and the mobilization of Lebanese troops.