LEBANON AND ISRAEL: ISRAEL OPENS OFFICIAL BORDER POST AS MORE LEBANESE REFUGEES CROSS FRONTIER

Record ID: 399281

  • Title: LEBANON AND ISRAEL: ISRAEL OPENS OFFICIAL BORDER POST AS MORE LEBANESE REFUGEES CROSS FRONTIER
  • Date: 25th August 1976
  • Summary: 1. GV Lebanese cars parked near border post PAN TO Customs and health inspection tents 0.14 2. SV Lebanese family entering search sheds 0.29 3. SV Lebanese waiting to pass through Customs (2 shots) 0.46 4. SV Israeli Customs officiers checking Lebanese luggage 0.58 5. SV Relatives greeting Lebanese as they pass through into Israel (2 shot
  • Embargoed: 9th September 1976 13:00
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  • Location: BOTH SIDES OF LEBANESE BORDER NEAR DOVEV VILLAGE, ISRAEL
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  • Country: Lebanon Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVABNUCZWBY7R6BMJVNVKIUPJGO9
  • Story Text: Israel has opened an official border post near Dovev on it's northern frontier with Lebanon to process hundreds of Lebanese refugees entering Israel.

    SYNOPSIS: The post opened on Monday (23 August) when a group of Lebanese Christians crossed the frontier for a month's visit to relatives in Haifa, Nazareth and the smaller Arab communities in Galilee.

    In the past few weeks thousands of Lebanese have crossed from their troubled country from their troubled country into israel. Many come for medical treatment, others to find work and some to visit relations they have not seen for years.

    The visits are the latest stage in Israel's evolving "good fence" policy. Officials estimate some 6,000 Lebanese have been treated by doctors at border clinics. About 100 Lebanese men and women have been found work in forestry and factories and trade goes on across the line.

    Security is strict with officials checking for smuggled explosives and weapons. But Israel claims that elements of the Lebanese Arab Army actually co-operate in guiding refugees to the frontier.

    Israel says it regards the "good fence" police as a vital propaganda weapon to achieve understanding with neighbouring Arab states. The Lebanese enter on the same terms as those who have crossed from Jordan since 1967. Israel has also reached agreement with Syria for meetings of families divided by the truce line on the Golan Heights.
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