The Tragedy of Ghajjar Village

The U.N patrol on the new border

Gahjjar village

U.N officer in the Lebaniese side

24.5.00 is the date when Israel had pulled back from south Lebanon . This retreat caused a new situation in the area because it was the first time that Israel pulled back from others lands.425 Is th U.N resolution which binding Israel to pull back from Lebanon's lands.The U.N mission  in this time was to draw the new border by going back on the old maps in order to verily the border and to make sure and clear for the two sides where the borders arrive.In 6.6.00 the U.N vehicles came to the enterance of the village in order to mark nd draw the points where the new line will arrive.Some of the residents saw them the announced to the villagers who knew about the the U.N resolution to divied the village ( according to what the U.N climed that part of the village belongs to Lebanon according to the 1923 maps). All the 1700 residents gothered at the village enterance , they demonstrated in outcry about the unhuman decision divide the village into two parts. THe village had benn occupieded by Israel's army at 1967 and wasn't belong to Lebanon. The villagers were ready to die in order to prevent the division of the village because if they divide the village they will separate the one family.

The residents of Ghajjar demonstrate aginst the U.N resolution to divide their village. Children, Elders, Men, Women were ready to die in order to prevent the devision of the village and to save their unity together.

Lily tears of mothers and children in the enterance of the village waiting to the U.N forces who ominous to divide the one family into two families, one in Lebanon and the second in Israel.

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The U.N patrols above Ghajjar village