The Israel Defense Force pullback from the Shouf mountain area and the main Beirut-Damascus highway will begin Sunday and be completed by the eve of Rosh Hashanah on September 7, according to reports from Beirut. But Israeli army spokesmen declined to comment on the report, saying that the date of the IDF pullback will be published “in due time.”
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