Hezbollah has vowed to continue its fight until Israel withdraws its troops from Shebaa Farms.
If Israel no longer occupies Shebaa Farms, Hezbollah could have a harder time making that argument.
His description of the Shebaa farms, a disputed enclave on Lebanon's border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is inaccurate.
Mr Annan says the UN will not require Israel to abandon the contentious Shebaa farms area in the Golan Heights in order to verify the withdrawal as complete.
Another member of Mr Qabalan's Higher Shia Council in Lebanon insists that Hizbullah should disarm as soon as Israel withdraws from the disputed Shebaa Farms, on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
To the east looms the high mountain range which includes the Shebaa Farms, an-Israeli occupied part of Syria, with army outposts dotted along the top, keeping an eye on the surrounding area.
Israel has demanded to see an unedited version and says the videotape could help identify members of Hezbollah who may have kidnapped three Israeli soldiers in the Shebaa Farms area on October 7.
They point out that Hezbollah policy isn't made at the village level, but by a Hezbollah leadership with longstanding ties to Iran, which has an agenda quite different from simply settling the Shebaa Farms issue.
While its grievances with Syria and Lebanon are centered around the disputed lands of the Golan Heights and Shebaa Farms, which Israel occupies, the problems run much deeper and the consequences of an agreement could have wider implications.
We ask President Obama and the United States to exert further pressure on Israel to implement Resolution 1701 and to withdraw from Israeli occupied -- Lebanese occupied territories namely from the village of Ghajar, Kfar Shouba, and the Shebaa Farms.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Meets with Lebanese President Sleiman
Where we destroyed the regime that afforded safe haven to our foes, Israel has been told it must make a further territorial concession to its counterpart by surrendering to Lebanon a small area known as Shebaa Farms that Israel has occupied since 1967.
He says if the world was to disarm Hezbollah and change it into a purely political organization, there's a way to do it by resolving the land dispute over the Shebaa Farms - still occupied by Israel - and by dealing with Lebanese detainees in Israeli prisons.
He has appointed a secret mediator to negotiate a prisoner swap between the sides, and says he will address Lebanon's claim to the Shebaa Farms, a patch of land within the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that Israel has hinted it might be willing to cede in the interest of a more permanent settlement.
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