Change MPs to head to 'besieged' Ghajar village
Change MPs Melhem Khalaf, Najat Aoun, Elias Jradi and Firas Hamdan will head Sunday to the Ghajar village “that is besieged by the Israeli enemy,” they said in a statement.
The visit comes “in condemnation of this new situation and dangerous aggression,” the MPs added, noting that they will issue the “appropriate stance” once they arrive in the area.
Hezbollah had on Thursday denounced Israel for building a concrete wall around Ghajar, calling on the Lebanese state to take action to "prevent the consolidation of this occupation" by Israel of Ghajar, home to around 3,000 people.
Hezbollah denounced Israel for the erection of "a barbed wire fence and the construction of a concrete wall around the entire locality."
The so-called Blue Line cuts through Ghajar, formally placing its northern part in Lebanon and its southern part in the Israeli-occupied and annexed Golan Heights.
The residents of Ghajar have been granted Israeli citizenship rights, and Israel has recently opened the town, long a military zone, to tourism.
Hezbollah charged that Israel had now "completely imposed their force on the Lebanese, occupied parts of the town and submitted it to its administration, in parallel with the opening of the town to tourists."
Source: Naharnet
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