Israel’s Inner Security Cabinet will soon make a decision regarding Israel’s presence in southern Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told parents of soldiers killed in the region. The parents have held a monthlong strike in front of the president’s residence in Jerusalem demanding that the government place the issue of Lebanon on the top of its agenda.
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