South Lebanon Truce Committee to Meet Tuesday
July 10, 1999 - 0:0
BEIRUT The international committee overseeing a truce in South Lebanon will meet next week following an Israeli decision to end its boycott, a Lebanese government official said Friday. The previous government of Benjamin Netanyahu boycotted the five-nation panel last month after deadly cross-border attacks waged by Israeli forces against civilians in South Lebanon. But Israeli television said Thursday that new Prime Minister Ehud Barak had reversed the decision.
The committee, which monitors a ceasefire accord that ended Israel's 1996 Grapes of Wrath offensive on Lebanon, will meet on Tuesday, the Lebanese official said. It will be the first meeting since the devastating Israeli air raids on Lebanon late last month which killed 11 people. Under the truce accord, Israel and Lebanese freedom fighters agreed not to target civilians or launch attacks from civilian areas.
The committee, which monitors a ceasefire accord that ended Israel's 1996 Grapes of Wrath offensive on Lebanon, will meet on Tuesday, the Lebanese official said. It will be the first meeting since the devastating Israeli air raids on Lebanon late last month which killed 11 people. Under the truce accord, Israel and Lebanese freedom fighters agreed not to target civilians or launch attacks from civilian areas.