Daily Star: UN will say Shebaa farms belong to Syria

A headline in the Beirut Daily Star tells us UN Security Council fails to confirm Shebaa Farms is Lebanese territory. Actually that is not confirmed in the story, which only states:

BEIRUT: The Lebanon Independent Border Assessment Team's report is nearing completion and UN cartographer Miklos Pinter is expected to visit the Shebaa Farms before submitting his final report. UN spokesperson in New York Farhan Haq told The Daily Star that Pinter's report, while not yet completed, is "proceeding toward its conclusion." Pinter has determined in his report that the Shebaa Farms span 20-40 square kilometers, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz last week.

But it is still quite different from the Ha'aretz report, which insisted and then had to retract, that the UN had decided the area belongs to Lebanon.

 

Ami Isseroff