Lebanese university students break into the barbed wire on besieged Arnoun and free it from Israel's claw

Hundreds of Lebanese university students on Friday broke through the barbed wire fences Israel planted around the Lebanese town of Arnoun and restored it to Lebanese sovereignty.

The students were shouting "Death to Israel," and "We are all for our nation." When a Lebanese student was asked why she was breaking the barbed-wire, she said: "Just because I am a Lebanese."

A student at the faculty of engineering, Ghassan Daou, said "Let the whole world know that Arnoun is Lebanese and the whole south is Lebanese."

The action by the Lebanese university students came on the ninth day of Israel's decision to annex the town of Arnoun to the occupied part of south Lebanon.

Later in the day, thousands of Lebanese citizens and officials representing all parties, religious groups and social movements arrived in the town, celebrating the big event of liberating their town.