ISRAEL: Relatives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon suffer from escalating violence on both sides of border

Record ID: 274517

  • Title: ISRAEL: Relatives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon suffer from escalating violence on both sides of border
  • Date: 16th July 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ARAB ISRAELI VILLAGER WHO HAS RELATIVES IN LEBANON, UM HASAN SAYING: "Take care of your sons and daughters, take care of yourself. We wish that there will be peace between two states so we can meet you, and we can see you. I wish that we can see each other, I wish there will be negotiations and to see you."
  • Embargoed: 31st July 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVAC8NJXV8154ICMEI1C1C63ESBZ
  • Story Text: Assessing the damage caused by rockets fired by Hizbollah guerillas in Lebanon, Um Hasan from an Arab-Israeli village on the border with Lebanon, says she is more concerned about the safety of his family who took refuge in Lebanon in 1948.
    The family is one of many families living on Israel's border with Lebanon who is suffering from the impact of the recent regional violence from both sides of the border.
    "Take care of your sons and daughters, take care of yourself. We wish that there will be peace between two states so we can meet you, and we can see you. I wish that we can see each other, I wish there will be negotiations and to see you," Arab Israeli villager who has relatives in Lebanon, Um Hasan told Reuters Television.
    Over 50 rockets fired by Hizbullah guerillas on northern Israel on Saturday (July 15) on northern Israel forced its Arab and Jewish residents to take cover in shelters and underground facilities.
    Israeli tanks on Saturday (July 15) rolled into Lebanese territory as part of Israel's offensive on Hizbollah targets to halt rocket attacks and release two kidnapped soldiers.
    Majed el-Krum has been hit several times in the past few days by a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon but Um Hasan worries more about her family in Lebanon dodging Israeli air strikes aimed at stopping rocket launching onto Israel after a deadly cross-border raid last week.
    After Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed Hizbollah confined its attacks on Israel largely to the disputed Shebaa Farms border area.
    Hizbollah's bold assault on Wednesday in which two Israeli soldiers were captured and eight killed shattered the tacit rules that had kept the lid on border violence for six years.
    The Israeli onslaught is the fiercest since a 17-day blitz on Hizbollah strongholds in the south in 1996.
    The Israeli army said on Saturday it had hit about 150 targets in Lebanon since the start of the offensive, with only less than a dozen linked directly to Hizbollah.
    Israel's aerial assault on Lebanon has drawn mounting world criticism but the White House said U.S. President George W. Bush would not press Israel halt its military operation.
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