JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will on Monday present a plan to the United Nations for Israel's withdrawal from part of a disputed village along the Lebanese border, a political source said on Sunday. The village of Ghajar, which straddles the Israel-Lebanon border but whose residents profess allegiance to Syria, has for years been an occasional flashpoint for violence between Israeli troops and Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. Earlier this year a UN official in Lebanon said the two countries needed to make progress on demarcating their border, called the “blue line”, which is monitored on the Lebanese side by a UN peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL. Ghajar lies on the foothills of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights captured from Syria in a 1967 war. Residents have Israeli citizenship and work in Israel. They don't want Lebanon to control the village because they say they are Syrian.
