”Seven Lebanese families of collaborators who had fled to "“Israel”" as its 22-year occupation ended returned to Lebanon on Wednesday, the police said.

The 22 people, including seven children, crossed the border at the western point of Ras Naqoura in vehicles belonging to the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon, who delivered them to police in the port city of Naqoura, police said.

The families were all originally from Debl in the former “Israeli”-occupied border zone.

Their return raises to 250 the number of Lebanese who have returned from occupied Palestine since fleeing there at the end of the “Israeli” occupation on May 24, according to a police tally.

About 6,000 Lebanese, many of them members of the “Israeli” occupation's proxy militia, fled south as "“Israel’s”" occupation ended.

On Tuesday, hundreds of the collaborators in occupied Palestine and their family members demonstrated in Ashkelon and Netanya against the poor treatment they are receiving from the “Israelis” saying, "We have been thrown to the dogs!"

Demonstrators exclaimed that they have been "forgotten in small stuffy rooms".

"We have become refugees in a foreign land," explained one collaborator in Ashkelon, who added that conditions for him and his family are unacceptable.

Another militiaman expressed his absolute disgust, adding that he served as "“Israel’s”" ally in the occupation's militia for 15 years, and is now a refugee with no hope for a better tomorrow.

On the other hand, an “Israeli” senior military source said the Zionist entity is spending 225 thousand US dollars (NIS 1 million) daily to cater to the needs of the collaborators living in occupied Palestine.

The mayor of the Shlomy colony had refused to receive the Lahd militiamen in his town and asked the Zionist cabinet to take them to a colony in the Tiberias area.

 Manar TV, 19-7-2000.