Protesting Civil Defense Volunteers Sleep in the Open, Erect Tent Near Technical Fence
Civil Defense volunteers continued their protests on Saturday and held a sit-in near the technical fence south Lebanon on the border with the occupied Palestinian territories, the National News Agency reported.
They plan to erect a tent near the technical fence, added NNA.
The campaigners, who demand their full-time employment, have been protesting since Monday and have slept the night in the open near the southern Kfar Kila road in a walking distance off the border.
On Monday, the volunteers erected a tent along the border protesting the government’s delay in granting them full-time employee status.
Late in 2015 the cabinet adopted decrees for the appointment of the head and members of the Civil Defense Directorate.
However it failed to pass decrees related to the full-employment of volunteers although it vowed to address the issue in coming meetings.
The technical fence runs parallel to the Blue Line, a border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel published by the United Nations on 7 June 2000 for the purposes of determining whether Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon.
