(8 Nov 2006)
1. Wide of fence with Ghajar village in background
2. Wide of UN Post
3. Wide of fence
4. Sign reading "Danger Mines"
5. Tracking shot of border
6. Israeli soldier talking to driver at roadblock
7. Two Israeli soldiers at roadblock
8. Wide of Ghajar village
9. UN tank
10. Wide of Israeli flag in front of Israeli building
11. Israeli roadblock
12. UN Flag
13. Wide shot, Ghajar village
14. UN tank
15. Various, Ghajar village
16. Israeli army vehicles driving away
STORYLINE:
Israeli troops withdrew on Wednesday from the Lebanese part of the divided border village of Ghajar.
When completed, the Israeli troop withdrawal from Ghajar would put Israeli forces behind the UN-demarcated Blue Line bordering the two countries for the first time since the summer war between the Jewish state and Hezbollah.
Israeli forces withdrew from other areas they occupied during the war in early October but remained in Ghajar, a village that is half in Israel and half in Lebanon.
An Israeli withdrawal from Ghajar would remove a major point of contention in the implementation of UN Resolution 1701, which halted the month long fighting on August 14, and would remove a major source of tension on the volatile border.
Israel took Ghajar when it captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967.
The village was divided between an Israeli-controlled part and a Lebanese sector by the UN following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon in 2000.
Israel sealed off the village from Lebanon during this summer's war.
Israeli officials have said withdrawing and freeing access to Ghajar would pose a security risk since the village is partly on Israeli-held land.
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