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Middle East

My Lords, I thank the Minister for replying to these questions. I will focus on Lebanon. There is talk about how the Lebanese army and the Lebanese Government should do this and do that, but can the Minister tell us how the Governments of the UK have reduced aid to Lebanon? It is all right talking about what they should do, but the Lebanese army has had its aid reduced. The problem with Lebanon in a nutshell is that Hezbollah is very active in the south of Lebanon and the north of Israel, and no one is talking about the Israeli villages and kibbutzim in northern Israel, which are evacuated and under attack. What Israel is doing, rightly or wrongly, is defending the people of northern Israel. What is needed is that Hezbollah should do what was agreed originally: it should stay on the Beirut side of the Litani River. If it stayed on the Beirut side of the Litani River, there would be less contact and less reason for Israel to attack. Can the Minister please help us by telling us how we can resolve this?