The pullout could resolve a dispute between the neighboring countries that has simmered ever since Israel reoccupied northern Ghajar during the war with Lebanon's Hezbollah  in 2006.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the plan earlier this month to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. An Israeli defense official said the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon would be stationed outside the village to keep Lebanese Hezbollah fighters out — allaying the main Israeli concern that Hezbollah would establish a foothold there. The Lebanese army would have no role in the village.

The defense official provided no information on the timing or other details of the plan. He spoke on condition of anonymity because Israel’s security Cabinet — a grouping of ministers with security responsibilities — has not yet voted on the proposal.

Ghajar, a village of 2,000 people, lies in a strategic corner where the boundaries of Syria, Israel and Lebanon are in dispute.

Israel captured it from Syria in 1967 when it took the Golan Heights. After the Israeli military ended its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000, UN surveyors split Ghajar between Lebanon and the Israeli-controlled Golan, but Israel recaptured the northern half of the village in the 2006 war.

Under the truce that ended the conflict, Israel agreed to withdraw, but it wanted to secure an arrangement that would keep Hezbollah from entering the village.

Hezbollah fired some 4,000 rockets into Israel during the 34-day war. Despite the cease-fire’s restrictions on rearming, Israel believes the group has restocked its arsenal with more powerful weapons.

Hezbollah is the strongest armed force in Lebanon, and as a member of the country’s coalition government, wields heavy influence over official decision- making.