With the escalation of clashes on the borders of Lebanon and Israel, more than two weeks after the Hamas movement launched Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” and the subsequent violent Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip that is still continuing to this day, anxiety prevails among the residents of areas in southern Lebanon.
The towns of the border strip are experiencing difficult living conditions, in light of the daily escalation of clashes, after Hezbollah and other Palestinian factions operating from Lebanon entered the confrontation line with Israel.
A number of mayors of the eastern sector of southern Lebanon conveyed the suffering of their towns to the Prime Minister’s Office in Beirut on Sunday, as a delegation of local officials visited caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
Private sources told Sky News Arabia that the delegation conveyed to the Prime Minister the difficult conditions these towns are experiencing in the Arqoub area, between remaining under bombardment or being displaced to other places.
She said that the delegation called on the state to “support the steadfastness of the people in their land, and to erase the damage to their homes from the Israeli bombing, especially after the fall of two martyrs in Shebaa a week ago.”
The delegation also called for “providing the necessary assistance to the people of the region, so that they can cling to their land in these difficult and fateful circumstances that Lebanon is experiencing.”
Total paralysis
In the same context, Milad Al-Alam, mayor of Rmeish, told Sky News Arabia: “We are going through difficult circumstances. Nearly 60 percent of the town’s population of 10,000 people have been displaced towards Beirut.”
Al-Alam added: “We are living in a state of war. Life has stopped, schools have been suspended, businesses have been closed, the olive season has been damaged by bombing, and the social and psychological conditions are very bad.”
Qassem Al-Qadiri, mayor of Kfarshouba, also told Sky News Arabia: “Only a few families remain in Kfarshouba. We are living in a period of complete paralysis after life stopped here and families were displaced to the Saray of the district town of Hasbaya, and some of them towards the Bekaa in the east of the country.”
A number of Shebaa residents indicated to Sky News Arabia that they had “migrated for the first time” from their border town.
Muhammad, a resident of Shebaa, said: “Everyone who has children has left the town for Beirut. Schools are suspended and their fate is unknown. Shebaa lives hours of anxiety from day to day in an unprecedented manner, and it has raised its voice to the state and may receive positive results.”
He added: “The displacement also affected the Syrian refugees in the town, which turned into empty homes.”
This border extends for a length of about 120 kilometers, starting from the town of Naqoura in the far west on the Mediterranean Sea, reaching the heights of Kafr Shuba and the occupied Shebaa Farms in the east, and Mount Hermon, which forms the joint Lebanese-Syrian-Israeli border, and is currently defined by the blue dividing line drawn by the United Nations between Lebanon on the one hand. And Israel and the occupied Golan Heights, on the other hand, on June 7, 2000.
2023-10-22 15:19:44
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