BEIRUT, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Saturday that his country will continue to struggle for the liberation of the Shebaa farms occupied by Israel in 1967.

    "The government will work with every possible effort to speedup the Israeli withdrawal from the national territories including the Shebaa farms," Siniora said when addressing legislators observing a sit-in to press for lifting Israeli siege of the country.

    He noted that the government would work with unanimous support of the people and confidence of the parliament, praising the Lebanese people for their solidarity in the face of the Israeli aggression.

    The prime minister disclosed that the liberation of the Shebaa Farms had been included in a government seven-point plan, proposed on July 26 during an international conference on Israel-Hazbollah conflict in Rome.

    The disputed Shebaa farms, located at the junction of Lebanon, Syria and Israel, were captured by Israel when it seized the Golan Heights during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

    After Israel pulled out of south Lebanon in 2000, ending a 22-year occupation, UN cartographers determined that Shebaa was part of Syria. The UN therefore declared that Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon and it drew a border demarcation line known as the Blue Line.

    The Shebaa farms are now claimed by Lebanon with the approval of Syria. Enditem