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Lebanon to Complain to U.N. Over Israeli Border Shooting

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Tuesday, 05 February 2008

Lebanon would lodge a complaint with the United Nations about an incident in which Israeli soldiers shot dead a Lebanese man and wounded another. Prime Minister Fouad Saniora's office said Saniora had "asked the Lebanese delegation to the United Nations to register a complaint against Israel with the Security Council, following the aggression against Lebanese territory." One man was killed and another wounded on Sunday when Israeli troops opened fire near the divided border village of Ghajar. A spokeswoman with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said UNIFIL had begun an investigation. A Lebanese military spokesman said the two men were unarmed and on the Lebanese side of the border when the shooting took place. Another official said the pair were suspected drug traffickers. But an Israeli army spokesman said that an Israeli patrol had come under fire from the Lebanese side of Ghajar. Ghajar, at the foot of Mount Hermon straddling the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, has been a source of continuous dispute between Israel and Lebanon. Its residents are mostly Alawites, the majority of whom have obtained Israeli citizenship even though they consider themselves to be Syrian. According to a U.N.-drawn "blue line" marking the border between Israel and Lebanon following the May 2000 withdrawal of Israeli troops, two-thirds of the village is on Lebanese soil. The other third is under Israeli control as part of the Golan which the Jewish state seized from Syria in 1967.(AFP)

 

 

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