Report: Army Blocks Access to Southern Border after Palestinian Calls for Protests

W460

The Lebanese army on Saturday reportedly closed all roads leading to the Marjayoun plain opposite the Israeli settlement of Metulla in the occupied territories, media reports said.

They said that the military imposed strict security measures in Marjayoun, one day after young demonstrators tried to enter the border town of Metulla in northern Israel.

Moreover, reports said the army erected checkpoints to prevent convoys of Palestinians from heading towards Lebanon’s border with occupied Palestine.

Palestinain factions have called on “all Palestinians in Lebanon, and from the refugee camps of Naher el-Bared, al-Beddawi, al-Rashiieh and Ain el-Helweh, to head south in buses to take part in protests at the border in a stand of solidarity with the Palestianins inside the occupied territories.”

On Friday, a number of young demonstrators, some carrying Palestinians flags and the yellow colors of Hizbullah, gathered in the Khiam plain and tried to enter the border town of Metulla in northern Israel.

The Lebanese army intervened to remove the dozens of young demonstrators from the scene.

SourceNaharnet
Comments 18
Thumb galaxy 15 May 2021, 13:52

But the Army is incapable of blocking the Southern border when it comes to Hezbollah.

Thumb i.report 15 May 2021, 14:35

The army that has never won any war takes its orders from Iran and Syria….

Missing phillipo 15 May 2021, 14:53

"Palestinain factions have called on “all Palestinians in Lebanon, and from the refugee camps of Naher el-Bared, al-Beddawi, al-Rashiieh and Ain el-Helweh, to head south"
Does this mean that the Palestinians do not recognise the refugee camps mentioned as part of the sovereign territory of the Republic of Lebanon?
If this is so, it should certainly light up a red signal to the Lebanese authorities.

Thumb i.report 15 May 2021, 19:35

AD, you know me, I desire peace in the region , not the elimination of Israel. However, the Israelis are stubborn people like the Ottoman Turks, they don’t seem to come to their senses. The West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, without a gruyère cheese style mini settlements all over the West Bank is the only way for a viable Palestinian state. They need to understand this, anything else means they’re playing the time card like others did before them across the world.

What Israel is doing is genocide according to the UN definition which Israel is a member of. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

Anyways… don’t count on the Iranians to attack Israel, they’re more interested in conquering the non Jews.

Thumb i.report 15 May 2021, 19:38

The world is silent about the China genocide , they’ll just keep doing the same for Israel.

Missing phillipo 15 May 2021, 20:08

i.report, why don't you respond to my comment regarding trhe sovereignty of the Republic of Lebanon?
To go back home means that you were born there. So just how many of those so-called Palestinians are over 73 years old?

Thumb i.report 15 May 2021, 20:54

Philippo, tell me where your grandparents were born and I’ll tell you where you belong.
Easy peasy, isn’t it?

You go back in time, 1947 and see an invasion of people who don’t even speak your language with a different culture, dressed like beggars and pouring in by millions overwhelming the local population, how would you react? Would you, as a native, agree to give them what belongs to you? I certainly would not! The Palestinians’ reaction back then was common sense.

The descendants of the Israelites who never left are today’s Palestinians and all levantines . Yes, they converted to Christianity under Constantin the Great, then to Islam 4 centuries later for most but here they are today. They speak Arabic, the mixed with Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Kurds, Persians, Turks, Arabs and even some Western European crusaders but today they’re Arab in culture. Any newcomer who hasn’t purchased his land from the locals during the ottoman era doesn’t belong in what you call Israel.

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 16 May 2021, 11:19

Phillipo hypocrisy knows no bound! The ad-hoc Palestinian leadership was right to refuse the non binding resolution by a UN that was dominated at that time by the US and where some semi independent countries were bullied to accept. This resolution proposed 55 percent of the land to the Jewish minority (many were illegally there and most were not born in the country and who owned 7 percent of the land). The Palestinians wanted a single state where everyone is equal under the law.

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 16 May 2021, 11:20

Even then, the offensive military actions were initiated by the Jewish Irgun, Haganah and Stern gangs into Arab towns and villages and hundreds of thousands of Palesrinians were driven out before some of the newly Arab states tried to help. Hundreds of thousands more were drive out after that and then tens of thousands between 1948 and 1967 and then hundreds of thousands in 1967 and then hundreds of thousands had their residency papers removed because they went to work outside and tens of thousands of jerusalem residents had their residency papers removed. And the latest round started with the Israeli government attempt to remove another 500 Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem. For some of these residents, that would have been their 3rd expulsion at the hand of the Israelis.

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 16 May 2021, 11:20

While the latest expulsion of Palestinians was temporarily halted due to US pressure, this did not save a young resident who was arrested by Israeli troops (who looked like and acted like thugs) and was expelled and told that if he returns his family would be expelled. Why? Because he was very effective in presenting the plight of Palestinians on US Television.

And is it not ironic that the pro Israel crowd keep harping at Palestinian rejection of that one UN resolution but they themselves reject dozens UN resolutions dealing with the fundamental human rights of Palestinians

Missing phillipo 16 May 2021, 12:56

"and most were not born in the country"
Neither were Ahmed Shukeiry and Yasser Arafat, but that doesn't seem to bother you.

Thumb i.report 16 May 2021, 14:30

Philippo, What's the meaning of the common Jewish lastname 'Mizrahi'?

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 16 May 2021, 14:32

Philipo ... you are such a hypocrite! Arafat was born in Cairo to a Palestinian family and Ahmed Shukeiri father is Palestinian and was raised in Palestine where he received his education. The early settlers were not Palestinians, nor are their parents or grandparents or grand grand parents. Some claim that they have ancestry from the old Israelite community that was exiled from Palestine thousands of years ago!

Thumb i.report 16 May 2021, 14:29

Are you telling me that before the French and British invasion of the Levant your grandparents were Ottoman citizens in Jerusalem?

IF that is the case then you're on outliar. One of the select and legitimate few.

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 16 May 2021, 14:39

In order for peace to come, both Palestinians and Israelis need to see that peace of land as home. We should not classify Jews according to dates and regions as the racist regime in Israel does. We should insist on equality between Palestinians and Israelis and that includes the restoration of Palesrinian rights including the right to return

Thumb i.report 16 May 2021, 19:28

AD, people like Natanyahu with made up family names don’t belong in the Middle East. The guy’s real family name mileikowsky or something like that. He’s a Russian/Polish! There’s plenty of land for him that he can legitimately purchase in Europe instead of stealing and raping Levantine properties who belong to the Jews who never left aka the Palestinians. Ask Pippo what his family name is, it’s most likely some German name. They’re all invaders.

Moreover, the ‘democratic’ state of Israel is behaving like the ‘democratic’ Germany of the 1930s… Iran is the 1930s Stalin , you know where this is all taking us.

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 16 May 2021, 14:33

Ahmed Shukeiri was born to a Palestinian father in Tebnin south Lebanon and grew up and was educated in Palestine

Missing phillipo 17 May 2021, 16:18

My wife was born in Palestine in 1945 and has a birth certificate to prove it, so automatically by the definitions of the PA and UNWRA, our children, grand-children and great grand-children are also Palestinians, unless of course you want to prove that by denying certain people that status, you are stating categorically that you are in agreement with the fact that Palestine is an apartheid state.