Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ©Al-Markazia
Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that Israeli forces were "staying indefinitely" in a buffer zone on the border with Lebanon, adding that their deployment there was "situation-dependent."
"There is a buffer zone (on the border with Lebanon); it wasn't easy, but I stood my ground, and we received a green light from the United States. We gave them a map, and we are staying indefinitely—this is situation-dependent, not time-dependent," Katz said at a conference, according to a statement issued by his office.
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