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Friday, August 11, 2006
Day XXX – Attack against an evacuation convoy from Marjeyun
Today, in Marjeyun [South Lebanon], several hundreds of private cars, together with dozens of vehicles of the Lebanese army, organised a huge convoy in order to evacuate the maximum of civilians from Marjeyun and its neighbourhoods, that have been under the fire of the Israeli war machines for days now.

Two days before, some twenty Israeli soldiers, led by an officer, entered the barracks of the Lebanese army in Marjeyun, and the Israeli officer then arrogantly declared to the commanding officer of the Lebanese troops: “Just shoot one bullet, and our planes will immediately demolish the barracks on your heads”.

The Minister of Interior, Mr. Ahmad Fatfat, categorically refused that the Lebanese army stay in the barracks occupied by the Israeli army, who hence took de facto 350 Lebanese soldiers as hostages. “In the barracks, it’s us or them!”, declared the Minister.

Though it immediately rejected the Lebanese accusation of “taking hostages”, Tsahal has nonetheless strictly refused the Lebanese soldiers or officers to leave the barracks since the very moment it was in.

Exasperated, Mr. Fatfat gave the order this morning to the Lebanese military hierarchy to evacuate the barracks, even if that meant that they would stay in the hands of the occupying force.

Immediately, arguments rose between the Lebanese army and the Israeli one inside the barracks, since the Israeli army refused to let its « prisoners » go.

After diplomatic contacts between Lebanon and France first, and then between France and Israel, the Israeli army eventually accepted to release its prisoners, obviously thanks to a personal call from Jacques Chirac to the Israeli government. But Tshal refused to let the Lebanese soldiers leave with their weapons. Then, the Lebanese commanding officer definitely refused to leave his troops’ weapons to the occupier.

A compromise has eventually been found, where the weapons of the Lebanese soldiers were all given to the UN forces. The Lebanese soldiers and their hierarchy were then allowed to gather with their vehicles on the main boulevard downtown.

When people in Marjeyun and its neighbouring villages heard about the evacuation of the army, they completely panicked, and thousands of people insisted on leaving with the army… which the Israeli army categorically refused.

Again, the Lebanese commanding officer refused to leave without the civilians who wanted to join his troops. The Israeli army then took the “adequate” measure: at around 4:00 p.m., its warplanes bombarded the road linking Marjeyun to Hasbaya, their rockets digging a crater of 5 meters deep and 20 meters large in the middle of it, whereas this road is the only suitable one which allows to go north from Marjeyun.
After some extra phone calls between the Lebanese spheres, the UN and the Israeli ones, the Lebanese commanding officer was allowed to leave with the civilians, under the UN soldiers’ protection. The convoy got organised: 350 disarmed soldiers and 3500 terrorised civilians gathered in something like 50 military vehicles and 515 civilian cars.

The convoy then headed north, passing through extremely difficult tracks [the army stooped several times to move away with their bare hands all the rocks and trunks that were blocking the tracks]. After two hours to drive only the first 13 kilometres, it eventually managed to reach one of the roads which link Saïda to the north, and decided to stop one time in Zahleh [in the Beqaa, at 35 kms from Baalbeck], and then to finish its journey in Beirut.

The problem is that the Israeli MKs had been following the convoy all the time since it left Marjeyun, and it’s in Kefraya, at a few kilometres before Zahleh, in the evening, that the Israeli war machines suddenly started to bombard the convoy: four cars immediately exploded. Eight people were immediately killed, and forty were wounded.

posted by Etienne at 8/11/2006 0 comments links to this post