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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/750937.html
Withdrawal of IDF Depends on Deployment of Lebanese Army
[Ha'aretz] Gideon Alon and Yoav Stern - Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Wednesday that the IDF would halt its withdrawal from southern Lebanon if the Lebanese army did not deploy in the area within days. A senior General Staff officer told the committee, "The deployment of UNIFIL troops in south Lebanon is likely to take several months....Until then, IDF forces will be forced to stay in the field." Halutz also said Israel was "successful in destroying 90 percent of [Hizballah's] long-range missiles."