(ANSAmed) - BEIRUT, APRIL 26 - A man and his two children have
crossed the most heavily-guarded border in the Middle East: that
between Lebanon and Israel, escaping into the latter. This
occurred yesterday evening and was reported on by the Lebanese
press this morning. The Beirut daily An-Nahar said that a man in
his thirties of unknown nationality crossed the electric fence
built by Israelis near the Lebanese town of Kfar Kila along the
Blue Line of demarcation between the two countries. He was
accompanied by his two children, one six years old and the other
a year and a half. Lebanon and Israel have officially been at
war since they became independent states over half a century
ago.
Since the autumn of 2006, over 10,000 UN peacekeeping troops
have kept watch over the border region from the Lebanese side,
where for the past five years thousands of Lebanese soldiers
have also gone back to being deployed. According to An-Nahar,
the man approached the fence around 7 PM, threw his elder son
over the fence, onto the military road controlled by the Israeli
Army. He then tossed his younger son over, caught by his elder
brother. Then he scaled the fence under the closed-circuit
surveillance cameras of the Israeli Army. Over the past few days
the Israeli media had announced that in the section of the Blue
Line near Metulla a separation wall would be built. (ANSAmed).
