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Monday, February 10, 2025
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Monday, February 10, 2025
Report: Netanyahu asked Trump to back extension of IDF deployment at key border points in southern Lebanon
Israeli soldiers seen on the border fence with Lebanon, northern Israel, on February 2, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
While Israel is supposed to complete its Lebanon withdrawal in eight days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Donald Trump to support an extension of the IDF’s deployment, Channel 12 reports.
It says Israel claims the Lebanese Army is not effectively deployed and is not preventing Hezbollah from reorganizing, and that Hezbollah aims to return to the border area as soon as the IDF goes.
Israel is seeking to keep the IDF at five key border points to enable the maintenance of a buffer zone, the report says.
It adds that Morgan Ortagus, Trump’s envoy, who visited Beirut on Friday, toured the border area with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Northern Command chief Ori Gordin over the weekend.
