UNIFIL urges Israel to withdraw from Northern Ghajar in Lebanon

Patrol components Indonesia shared the Lebanese Army Battalion and the army of France in the UNIFIL stationed in border areas of Israel and Lebanon. They hold the mandate of the UNITED NATIONS maintain and monitor the situation and condition of the peace that has been created in Lebanon. (Photo Of The Konga Bay Task Force Lighting/XXIII-F/UNIFIL--First Lt. Inf Suwandi)

... Israel must withdraw its forces from the area. "

Beirut (News and Us)-the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Tuesday (7/4), insists Israel must withdraw from the northern part of Ghajar, a Village on the border of Lebanon.

Israel's occupation of the northern part of the village was a real violation of UN Resolution 1701, UNIFIL said in a statement. The UN troops said Israel should withdraw its forces from the area. Not long ago UNIFIL refusing Israel build a fence around the village.

UNIFIL will work closely with the Lebanese military in order to implement the UN resolution and prevent any violation by Israel. Israel occupied the northern part of the village during the 2006 war.

Ghajar is a village of 2,000 residents with Alawi in the Hasbani River on the border between Lebanon and the Golan Heights; the international community recognized as a territory occupied by Israel but Syria.

Control over Ghajar has been repeatedly moved the hand. Three hundred years ago, the village was known as Taranjeh. The village was given the name of Ghajar under the rule of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire), when the land was seized from villagers by the Kurdish people and sold by force.

According to local legend, the Kurdish Governor tried to ride his horse ever Ghajar on the graves of pious people, Sheikh Al-Arba'in. The horse is not going by order of the Governor and on the following day, a fire broke out, thus damaging the shield and swords of the Governor. The Kurds fled and quickly resell it.

Before the 1967 Arab-Israel war, Ghajar was considered part of Syria and its citizens counted in the Census of 1960, Syria.

When Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, Ghajar remained a land of no man's land for two and a half months.  Alawi community there launched a petition to Governor of Israel in the Golan Heights so that they are included into the area of Israel, as part of the Golan Heights, and not Lebanon. The reason is that they think of themselves as people of Syria, as the majority of the citizens of the Golan.
Israel agrees to enter into the area of occupation in Ghajar, Golan Heights, and then receive their citizens living under the control of Israel.

After operation Litani in 1978, Israel gave up its position in Lebanon to the South LebanoN Army and inaugurated the "Good Fence" policy. P

asukan While the UN in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was formed after the RAID, after the passage of U.n. Security Council Resolution 425 of March 1978 to confirm the withdrawal of Israel from southern Lebanon, restore peace and security, and help the Lebanese Government restore authority in that area.

Ghajar expanded northward into Lebanese territory, and entered the neighborhood of Wazzani in the North of the border.

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Lebanon observed the bombing Syria in border town

The military will take action that is necessary to monitor the border with neighboring countries.

Beirut (Reuters)-Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati, on Wednesday (20/3), appointing Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour to follow developments in the bombing of the small town of Lebanon by Syria's border.

After a cabinet meeting, Lebanese Minister of information Walid Daouk told reporters the Lebanese security services have confirmed Syria's army has been waging air strikes against Lebanese territory, according to the Xinhua report, Thursday.

Miqati said in that meeting, "the military will take action that is necessary to monitor the border with neighboring countries."

On Tuesday, President Michel Suleiman instructed Mansour to send a letter of protest to Syria, hoping to prevent "the Syria reiterated that such operations".

But Damascus, in his first comments about the attack, denied involvement in the incident.

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Lebanon asked for help to handle refugees Syria

Illustration. Syria refugees waiting to register their names at the refugee camp of Al Zaatri in Mafraq, Jordan, one of the towns in bordering Syria. (REUTERS/Mohammed Hamed)

Beirut (Reuters)-Lebanese Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour issued an appeal to the UN Security Council and Arab countries to provide assistance for refugees in Lebanon, Syria.

In an interview with Voice of Lebanon radio, Abou Faour, Sunday delivered a deep concern about the prospects of Syria refugees whose number has reached the figure of half a million.

However Faour firmly said that the Lebanese Government's ability to act has gone beyond limits, Xinhua said.

Currently, more than 357.000 refugees reside in Lebanon, Syria, and most recently UNITED NATIONS statistical data.

In December 2012, Lebanon has asked donor countries to provide international financial package amounting to 370 million u.s. dollars in order to help him to give assistance to refugees that Syria ditampungnya.

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Rebels threaten to attack Hezbollah Syria Lebanon

Syria Liberation fighters drinking tea together during a break in the Salaheddine, Aleppo.(INTERMEDIATE/REUTERS/Muzaffar Khan)

Last week ...Hezbollah opened fire on villages around Qusayr from the region of Lebanon, and that we cannot accept

Damascus (Reuters)-the Commander of the rebel Liberation Army issued a 48-hour ultimatum Syria, warned that his forces would attack the Lebanese Hezbollah group it stop the attack except to rebel-controlled areas.

The threat was issued on Wednesday, after the rebels shot down a Government fighter aircraft following air strikes that killed 20 people in the town of the province of Damascus.

General Idriss, Chief of staff of Selim's Liberation Army suggested Syria (FSA) told AFP Wednesday that Hezbollah has long participated in hostilities in Syria, but they are beyond the limits by shelling villages near Homs province Qusayr from the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.

"Hezbollah of Lebanon's sovereignty by abusing the shelling the area and Syria Liberation Army positions Syria," said Idriss.

The commander said the rebels 48 hours to allow time to stop Hezbollah attacks like that and say, "soon the ultimatum expired, we will begin to respond to the sources of the shooting".

Rebels in the area Qusays will be supported by the FSA petempur equipped with long range weapons from other areas, he said.

The FSA also asked Lebanon's President and Prime Minister, "said Idriss hands down, but Prime Minister Najib Mikati's Office refused to make contact with the rebels to Syria.

Hezbollah repeatedly sent the petempur in Syria, although their leader Hasan Nasrallah admitted in October that the rebels fighting Syria party members.

Nasrallah said they were acting as individuals and not under the direct command of the group.

The AFP report, Lebanon is concerned Syria conflict torn, Sunni March 14 movement supporting the rebels, while the Shiite Hezbollah and its allies in support of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.

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Syria army 'kills man in Lebanon'

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6 October 2011 Last updated at 21:47 GMT The Syrian army has been fighting to contain protests in cities across the country Syrian forces have crossed into Lebanese territory and shot dead a Syrian man living in a border area, reports say.

The man killed was reportedly a farmer living in a remote area of Lebanon's eastern Bekaa region. It was not clear why he was targeted.

It follows an incursion by Syrian tanks earlier this week, raising fears that Syria's unrest is spreading.

Some 5,000 Syrians have sought refuge in Lebanon in recent months.

They include deserting soldiers and opposition members fleeing a crackdown on protesters by the Syrian government.

At least 2,900 people have died in Syria since the uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad began in March.

Porous border

According to reports, Syrian army vehicles crossed the border near Saaba, in the Bekaa region, and attacked farmers and their homes.

Witnesses said several buildings were damaged.

A Lebanese official told AFP news agency as saying the body of the Syrian man who died was left lying at the site, and that an investigation was under way.

It is unclear why the man, named as Ali al-Khatib - who was married to a Lebanese woman and living in the area - was killed.

The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says the border near the Bekaa region is porous and not even clearly defined.

Earlier this week, Syrian tanks entered the same region in a brief incursion.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati told AFP that a joint Syrian-Lebanese committee was looking into the issue.

"I am not being silent about this, we are dealing with the issue normally," he said.

"I don't want to blow these incidents out of proportion and I don't want to belittle them either," he added.

Lebanon has taken in several thousand Syrians fleeing the trouble in their own country.

Mr Miqati says they are being looked after on humanitarian grounds, but our correspondent says there have been reports of activists being hunted down and sent back to Syria.

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