Israel evacuates more villages in South Lebanon; Six Lebanese civilians killed
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/23/2000

On Monday since the very early morning hundreds of Lebanese people rushed into the liberated villages carrying Lebanese state and national resistance flags. The people of the liberated villages welcomed their people with tears and joys mingled together after 22 years of separation. All these festivities started as from al-Naqoura in the west to al-Adeseyah in the east.

The Lahd hireling militia agents of whom 300 surrendered themselves to the Lebanese army and national resistance until Monday evening, tried to stop the crowded masses but in vain.

Meantime seven Lebanese civilians were killed and other 31 wounded as a result of the Israeli bombardment in the sectors of the areas evacuated by the Lahd hireling militias.

Lebanese medical sources and sources of the Lebanese police said that Hussein Karnib and Ali Jaffal were killed following shells bombardment against Rashaf village. Citizen Suleiman Eammal was killed in a shelling fired an Israeli tanks in al-Adeseyah.

Also on Monday two Lebanese civilians were killed after their sedan car was hit by the Israeli artillery fire while heading for their liberated town of Houla.

Meanwhile, hundreds of citizens of Meis al-Jabal returned back to their village already evacuated by the hireling militias.

In Rashaf five persons were wounded, including one woman and two children in a shelling bombardment after the hireling militias evacuated their positions in this area.

The same source said that five civilians from Serbin town, near Rashaf were wounded and at least three Lebanese civilians were wounded in the Israeli bombardment which targeted aggregations of Lebanese citizens while trying to return back to their villages in the occupied are.

Other six civilians were wounded in the bombardment against Beit Yahoun crossing which links the central sector of the occupied zone to the other Lebanese territories.

On the other hand, Lebanese villages liberated on Monday from the Israeli occupation were Bint Jbeil, Saff al-Hawa, Beit Yahoun, Konin, Tallousah, Rabb al-Thalathin, Bani Hayyan, al-Teiri, Meis al-Jabal, Rshaf, Bleida, Einata, Houla, Markaba, Eitroun and al-Adeseyah.

Meantime, hireling Robin Abboud, the official in charge of the central sector area in the hireling militias surrendered himself to the Lebanese resistance while other scores of militia agents are also surrendering themselves to the resistance men and to the Lebanese army.

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