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Article: Israel Must Return Shebaa Farms to Lebanon: PM BEIRUT, May 4

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May 4, 2000
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Lebanese leaders told visiting U.N. Middle East envoy Terje Roed Larsen that the violence in south Lebanon will not cease if Israel does not relinquish the Shebaa Farms in its planned troop withdrawal, the Daily Star newspaper reported.

Prime Minister Salim Hoss told reporters that "Lebanon wants to liberate its occupied territories and restore its sovereignty there. It will not give up one centimeter of the territories, especially the Shebaa Farms."

The highly fertile farms, seized by Israel from Lebanon in the 1967 Middle East war, are located on the Lebanese side of Mount Hermon, Syria's highest mountain, which is under Israeli occupation.

Israel argues that the Shebba Farms belong to ...

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