RELATED:UN: New Lebanon-Israel conflict possibleOn June 29 and July 3-4, angry villagers blocked roads and threw stones to prevent peacekeepers from performing a military drill.Williams said that to live up to the UN resolution, Israel must halt air sorties over Lebanon and resolve disputes over the village of Ghajar and the Shaba Farms area on Lebanon's border with Syria's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Lebanon, he said, must disarm Hizbullah and Palestinian militias and marking Lebanon's border with Syria, "where progress is being made" but some Security Council members don't think it's quick enough.The UN force was deployed along the border after the 2006 Israeli-Hizbullah war to help Lebanese troops extend their authority into the south for the first time in decades and create a buffer zone free of Hizbullah fighters.Williams demanded that the 15,000-member UN force be allowed freedom of movementHe told reporters after briefing the Security Council that deployment of the force and other measures in the 2006 UN resolution "have allowed the longest period of stability between the parties since the 1970s.""No one on either side of the Blue Line has been killed by hostile military action from the other side in the past four years," he said, referring to the UN-drawn unofficial boundary between Israel and Lebanon.
UN: Calm returned to southern Lebanon
Lebanese soldiers deployed in the area brings quiet.
RELATED:UN: New Lebanon-Israel conflict possibleOn June 29 and July 3-4, angry villagers blocked roads and threw stones to prevent peacekeepers from performing a military drill.Williams said that to live up to the UN resolution, Israel must halt air sorties over Lebanon and resolve disputes over the village of Ghajar and the Shaba Farms area on Lebanon's border with Syria's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Lebanon, he said, must disarm Hizbullah and Palestinian militias and marking Lebanon's border with Syria, "where progress is being made" but some Security Council members don't think it's quick enough.The UN force was deployed along the border after the 2006 Israeli-Hizbullah war to help Lebanese troops extend their authority into the south for the first time in decades and create a buffer zone free of Hizbullah fighters.Williams demanded that the 15,000-member UN force be allowed freedom of movementHe told reporters after briefing the Security Council that deployment of the force and other measures in the 2006 UN resolution "have allowed the longest period of stability between the parties since the 1970s.""No one on either side of the Blue Line has been killed by hostile military action from the other side in the past four years," he said, referring to the UN-drawn unofficial boundary between Israel and Lebanon.