Posted on 09/06/2006 10:38:27 AM PDT by John Carey
Israel said on Wednesday it would lift an eight-week-old air and sea blockade against Lebanon on Thursday, handing over control to international forces.
"Thus it was agreed that tomorrow at 6 p.m. (1500 GMT), Israel will leave the control positions over the ports in conjunction with the entry of the international forces," a statement from Olmert's office said.
Israel imposed the embargo, bombing Beirut airport and denying ships access to Lebanese ports, a day after Hizbollah captured two of its soldiers on July 12 and sparked a war that was halted by a U.N.-brokered truce nearly five weeks later.
Annan, in Ankara for talks with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Turkey's contribution to a bigger U.N. peacekeeping force to shore up the truce, had been heavily involved in trying to broker a deal to end the blockade.
Lebanon had vowed to bust the blockade if it was not lifted by Friday.
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ah finally Hezbollah doesn't have to crawl through tunnels to re-arm themselves... they can now drive the trucks with rocket launchers right down the street under "zee internationale nose"
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