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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that UN peacekeeping troops must “immediately” withdraw from the combat zone in southern Lebanon. Five members of the multinational peacekeeping force have been injured there this week amid the heavy fighting. Netanyahu addressed his appeal directly to UN Secretary General António Guterres during a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, saying the UNIFIL force must exit so that Israeli ground troops can take on the armed militant group Hezbollah. Israel and Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, have traded cross-border fire on a near daily basis fo…

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