LEBANON: CHAOTIC SCENES AT BORDER WITH ISRAEL AS LEBANESE PROTESTERS ATTACK INSTALLATIONS ON ISRAELI SIDE

Record ID: 398977

  • Title: LEBANON: CHAOTIC SCENES AT BORDER WITH ISRAEL AS LEBANESE PROTESTERS ATTACK INSTALLATIONS ON ISRAELI SIDE
  • Date: 28th May 2000
  • Summary: FATMA GATE BORDER CROSSING, LEBANON (REUTERS) 1. SLV LEBANESE PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS AT ISRAELI ARMY BORDER POST;SCU ISRAELI SOLDIER TAKING COVER INSIDE BORDER POST; SLV LEBANESE PROTESTERS KICKING AT BORDER POST; CROWDS RUNNING AWAY AT THE SOUND OF GUNSHOTS (4 SHOTS) 0.23 2. SV /MV/SCU ISRAELI SOLDIERS INSIDE BORDER POST AND OUTSIDE (3 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 12th June 2000 13:00
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  • Location: FATMA GATE BORDER CROSSING AND MARJAYOUN, LEBANON
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  • Country: Lebanon Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA4VTEA108L4A58U2TWZFV0KKZ1
  • Story Text: There were chaotic scenes late on Saturday at the
    Lebanese border with Israel as the day long attacks against
    installations on the Israeli side of the border by Lebanese protesters
    continued without any let-up.

    Lebanese residents and Hizbollah supporters on Saturday (May 27)
    continued to attack the Israeli army post with stones and sticks.At one point
    a protester climbed an electricity pylon and wielded an axe at the Israeli
    soldiers taking cover inside the border post opposite.

    Israeli soldiers responded by firing live rounds into the air, sending
    protesters running for cover.As the protests continued, Israeli residents from
    the nearby settlement of Metulla came down to the border, trading insults
    and missiles with the Lebanese.

    The Israeli military presence appeared visibly increased in the area,
    with soldiers monitoring crowd movements on the Lebanese side.

    In a separate development, Hizbollah guerrillas blew up a memorial to
    fallen SLA soldiers in Marjayoun.Debris littered the small hilltop site, which
    until early on Saturday afternoon was home to a grey concrete structure built
    to comemorate SLA dead.


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