Report: Israel Warned Lebanon Ahead of Land Day Protest
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Israel has warned Lebanese authorities against a march by protestors to areas bordering the Jewish state on Land Day to mark the loss of Arab lands in the Galilee, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Sunday.
“Israel has asked Lebanon, using intermediaries, to stop its residents from approaching the Israeli border on Friday as part of Land Day protests,” the newspaper said.
“The forum of eight senior cabinet ministers will consider security preparations in Israel and the West Bank when they meet” on Sunday, it said.
Haaretz added that protests are expected in the Gaza Strip, near the Erez border crossing, and at West Bank sites such as the Qalandiyah checkpoint, north of Jerusalem.
However, the protest in Lebanon is worrying Israel most given that ten protesters were killed and 112 others wounded when a crowd of thousands of Palestinian refugees came under fire from Israeli troops near the Lebanese border town of Maroun al-Ras during a Nakba Day rally in May last year.
The Israeli warning came despite the announcement that the Land Day celebrations by pro-Syrian Lebanese parties and Palestinian factions will take place at the Beaufort, or Shqeef, Castle in Nabatiyeh next Friday.
Abdul Malek Sukkariyeh, the media coordinator of the rally, announced that the Lebanese army had officially permitted the staging of the event.
25 March 2012, 13:27
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lebanese army got some warning from something called israel but they were unable to find this phantom state on the world map so they decided to ignore it.
25 March 2012, 14:28
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yeah tell that to the families of the 10 that died last year and whose deaths were fruitless...
25 March 2012, 16:38
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you filthy zionist agent think that Israel does not exits? You do live in a bubble mate!
25 March 2012, 17:08
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slash you fool the weapons are to establish a new Iranian Islamic province called Lebanon, hassan said so himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_QLhLEMks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zF_QLhLEMks#t=301s
25 March 2012, 18:21
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Jabal, I'm not as smart and cultured as you are. Could you explain to me what Zionism is?
25 March 2012, 15:19
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Let these Palestinians protest on the border, hopefully some will cross and make it back to their homeland, and let the Israeli fire at them for their defense.
They've both been warned, and Lebanon & Israel have warned each other.
25 March 2012, 17:01
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jabalamel: Do you have a life? or you spend all day online so you can write your crap?
25 March 2012, 17:59
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Sooner or later someone will pull something serious and stupid and the IDF will roll into what has become known as hisbullastan and wipe it off the map once and for all...
25 March 2012, 23:22
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The Palastinians are not Lebanon's residents. If they want to act stupid and get killed at the border, then let them. We have too many of them and they are no good for us.
26 March 2012, 09:02
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They the Hitsraeli's sent the palestinains to Lebanon in first place idiot, and if it was not for them trying to wipe out the palestinains from Lebanon in 1982 there would have been no HA. Get it stupid.
