Israel urged the United Nations to restore a checkpoint along the Israeli-Lebanese border. The decision by the U.N. force in Lebanon to remove peacekeepers from Ghajar, a village lying on both sides of a line marking Israel’s withdrawal last year from southern Lebanon, endangers both Israeli soldiers and civilians, said Yehuda Lancry, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.
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