Arab Deportees March in Protest
More than 400 expelled Palestinians marked one month of exile in a southern no-man’s-land by marching toward Israeli army lines and staging a protest sit-in Sunday.
Some holding copies of the Koran above their heads, the men marched in silence about half a mile to a rocky hilltop overlooking Israel’s self-declared security zone.
Israeli planes and helicopters flew overhead while the deportees prayed and spread out to form letters spelling “Home” on the hillside. They then returned to their camp, and Israeli tanks pulled back to their earlier position.
No sign of a breakthrough was evident in the impasse between Lebanon and Israel over the men, who were expelled by Israel on Dec. 17 in retaliation for the slayings of six Israeli troopers by suspected Muslim fundamentalists.
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