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Tensions have escalated, in recent months, between Israel and the Hezbollah movement on Lebanon s southern border over Tel Aviv s full occupation and annexation of the northern part of the village of .
Lebanon has filed a complaint against Israel for "consecrating" its occupation of the Lebanese part of the border town of Ghajar. This came in a statement issued by the Lebanese Foreign Ministry days after the Israeli army established a barbed wire fence around the area. The Foreign Ministry called for "immediate and unconditional withdrawal from all occupied Lebanese territories, and condemnation of this deliberate violation of Lebanese sovereignty" Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000 after more than two decades of occupation, but still occupies a small area of its territory.