[Ha'aretz] Gideon Alon - A senior Israel Defense Forces officer told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday that IDF troops had leveled land inside Lebanese territory up to one kilometer from Israel's northern frontier to prevent the reestablishment of Hizballah posts along the border. Defense Minister Peretz said Israel intends to create an unmanned buffer zone in south Lebanon. A Military Intelligence official also told the committee that the Palestinians had smuggled suicide bombers through the Philadelphi Route on the Gaza-Egypt border into Sinai in order to send them back into Israel to carry out attacks.
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