Hezbollah officials in Lebanon claimed a village spanning the volatile Lebanese-Israeli border as Lebanese territory and said they are ready to fight for it. The group has set up checkpoints just hundreds of yards from Israeli soldiers on the edge of Ghajar, a village lying on both sides of a line marking Israel’s withdrawal last year from southern Lebanon.
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