January Friday 07-2000:
Occupation
seals off 7 villages, expels resident
(1)
"Israeli" occupation forces have expelled Talieh Hassan Abu Rashed,
30, from his hometown of al-Fardees to the liberated areas.
A car belonging to the occupation's militia "security" unit in the
town took Abu Rashed to the crossing gate of Zimraya Wednesday afternoon.
The militiamen told him never to return to the occupied zone.
Abu Rashed had been detained for two years in al-Khiam detention center. He was
released recently.
In
the meantime, the towns of Bint Jbeil, Houla, Ainata, Aita al-Shaab, Aitaroun,
Dibbeen, Maroun al-Rass are still being subjected to the most hideous types of
harassment and arbitrary measures.
A statement by the National Committee for Developing the Occupied Zone called on
the Lebanese government and the international foundations to interfere and press
the "Israeli" occupation to lift the siege imposed on the towns,
release the detainees and provide residents with food and medicine.
Meis al-Jabal condemn collaborators
(2)
Reports from the occupied zone said the collaborators in the town of Meis
al-Jabal have perpetrated arbitrary measures against the town residents who
issued a statement condemning the occupation's militia.
- Agent Zuheir Shqeir, in coordination with his brother Dr. Suheil Shqeir, has
stolen large amounts of medications that were sent by the Lebanese government to
the town's dispensary.
Shqeir has also been barring the residents from leaving the town besides
ransacking houses and forcing residents to pay coercive payments.
- Collaborator Ezzat al-Ghadban went recently to the Meis al-Jabal High School
and insulted the school principal for not giving Ghadban's son a success
certificate.
"In the face of the collaborators' arbitrary and criminal acts," the
communiqué concluded, "we must speak up and expose these agents before all
the Lebanese and the Lebanese government to make sure that they will have no
room amongst the town's residents who will never forget their criminal
acts."
Maroun al-Rass fears enemy annexation of
territories
(3)
The administrative committee of the Maroun al-Rass Development Committee (MRDC)
condemned the "Israeli" enemy's seizure of Lebanese territories
including some belonging to the town of Maroun al-Rass.
Following its meeting Wednesday, the committee said, "Following the
repeated Zionist statements on appropriating Lebanese territories, including
some of the territories belonging to Maroun al-Rass, MRDC sees it is a duty to
confront such Zionist expansionist statements. It also condemns the recent
statements made recently by some of the "Israeli" enemy's officials on
demarcation of the northern borders of occupied Palestine, which requires,
according to the enemy's statements, seizing Lebanese territories, including
around 600 square kilometers from Maroun al-Rass".
"It is worth mentioning that the Zionist colony of Avivin had been
established on territories belonging to Maroun al-Rass. Therefore, we stress and
inform the Lebanese state and the concerned parties that we will never give up
one inch of our precious land. We insist on liberating all of our occupied land,
and we put ourselves at the service of the Resistance until full liberation is
achieved," the communiqué concluded.
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