Lebanon rejects Israeli plan to split al-Ghajar village in two
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 1/4/2006

Lebanon has rejected an Israeli likely project to build a security wall between the two parts of al-Ghajar village which is situated south Lebanon and dividing it between Lebanon and Israel.

A statement by the press office in the Republic's presidency said that the Lebanese president Emil Lahoud asked the foreign minister Fawzi Salloukh "to make a quick move in order to face the new Israeli plan which falls in the course of the continued Israeli aggressions against Lebanon's sovereignty."

Hundreds of people from the village demonstrated raising banners announcing rejection to the project and on some of the banners are written "we are Arab Syrians and this land is Arab" and "we call on the Lebanese government and the Hizbullah to work for not enabling Israel to build a wall for splitting the town."

The second channel in the Israeli TV said that Israel intends to build a wall between the two parts of the village which has one half in Lebanon and the other half is in Israel after the latter occupied the Syrian Golan in 1967.

Israeli officials said on Tuesday that the internal Israeli security department Shein Beit proposed the transfer of citizens who carry the Israeli nationality to the southern part of the village and then divide the village permanently.

The project will be subjected to a study by the official Israeli side in the presence of experts from Israel.

Worthy mentioning that the village is situated on the border between Lebanon and Syrian before the Israeli forces occupied in 1967 the southern part of it that is situated in the Golan Heights and falls under the control of Syria while the northern part in under the control of Lebanon.

Some of the Arab citizens in the village got the Israeli nationality during a campaign carried out by the occupation authorities to change the demographic situation of the Golan by the beginning of the 1970s.

Since the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from south Lebanon in 2000, the town has become a point of confrontation between Hizbullah and the Israeli occupation forces.

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