[Marxism] who are the other two Lebanese?

["yossi schwartz" <ssschwartz8@xxxxxxxxx>]

YATER, is a village in  south Lebanon, still half ruined from the Israeli
bombardment of the houses two years ago. The village has a long
history of  resistance
against Israel, beginning in the late 1960s, when some of Yater's youths
joined Palestinian groups then establishing themselves in south Lebanon. A
later generation joined the Amal Movement and fought Israeli occupation
troops in the early 1980s. By the end of that decade, Hizbollah had arrived
in the south and was winning new recruits like  Maher Kourani, 32 years old
a veteran Hizbollah fighter'

who  took up arms in 1992 when Israeli troops launched an incursion lasting
several days north of their zone into Yater and the neighbouring village of
Kafra. He fought until Israel's troop withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000
and then continued his military activities with Hizbollah along the border.

He was captured in the last days of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. Today the
Israeli government  decided to  release him  as part of the prisoner
exchange with Israel.



""I am very happy that he will be returning, of course, and that life will
return to normal," said Izzat Kourani, 25, Maher's wife. "."



She met the journalist who interviewed her  wearing  a full-length black
chador. On one wall  of the sitting room were pictures of Sayyed Hassan
Nasrallah, Hizbollah's secretary general, and Imad Mughniyah, Hizbollah's
military chief who was assassinated in February in Damascus, most likely by
Israel.  On another wall is a poster of Maher.



"When he knew that there was going to be an aggression by Israel against
Lebanon, he automatically went out to defend his country," said Hassan
Kourani, 54, Maher's father. The family had no news of Maher throughout the
war and only learnt of his fate afterwards on television. Maher had been
fighting near the village of Shemaa, 11km west of Yater, when he was
captured by Israeli troops.



"He fought for 29 days and was captured four days before the end of the war



.



The prisoner swap deal reached between Hizbollah and Israel will see Maher,
his two Hizbollah comrades and two other Lebanese exchanged for the two
Israeli soldiers captured on July 12 2006 Goldwasser and Eldad Regev .It is
not clear whether any of them is still alive. One of them almost for sure
died on the day he was captured from his wounds..



.

The director of the Rosh Hanikra compound where Israel is to receive
Goldwasser and Regev said that military and other preparations for the
exchange had begun at the site early on Tuesday. Last time such exchange
took place Elhanan Tennenbaum, a high officer a drug dealer and a personal
friend of  Sharon the butcher  and the former P.M of Israel was exchanged. .






So we know that Israel is forced to release  Kuntar's and two other Lebanese
fighters but who are the other two Lebanese?









Last year In a Letter to Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, on the occasion of his visit to
Lebanon he received a letter we discover:







To his Excellency the Secretary-General of the

United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon



Names of the Detainees and the Missing Lebanese During the Israeli
Occupation of Parts of Lebanese territories

Memorandum relevant to the Detention of Lebanese Citizens as Hostages during
the war of July 2006

DETAINEES:

1- Samir kontar, detained in Israel since April 22, 1979 and sentenced for
542 year prison term.Israel refused to release him during last detainees'
swap which took Place on January 29, 2004.



2- Naseem Niser, born in Bazorya in south Lebanon in 1967.He has been
detained since June 4, 2002 in Tel mond prison in Israel, after he sentenced
for 6 years.



MISSING:

1- Mooussa El Sheikh Selman, from Maarka village. He was arrested by the
Israeli forces on June 8, 1982, wounded when transported by a ICRC staffer
from the rest house of Tyre (South Lebanon) to the field Hospital of the
Israeli occupation army near Mealliya. Since then his fate remains unknown.
The ICRC confirmed his condition when he was transferred.



2- Bilal Samadi, was kidnapped on June 4, 1982 with five other persons on
the bridge of the Awali River following an Israeli ambush.



3- Yahia Skaff, from Menya, North Lebanon. He was detained by the Israelis
on March 11, 1978. The Occupying Israeli forces are still denying his
existence.



4- Ibrahim Zein El Din, a teacher in Baaklin secondary School. He was
kidnapped by the Israeli Army from his fiancée's house on Oct.8, 1982 and
transferred to the Israeli Intelligence center located then in Ras El Jabal
in Aley(Mount Lebanon).His two friends, Nazih Abou Ajram and Mounir Chami,
who were arrested later on, confirmed having seen him chained and naked with
torture marks on his body.



5- Mohamad Said Al Jarrar , from Chebaa village. He was kidnapped in 1979 by
the occupying forces imprisoned in Tal Nahas camp, then transferred to the
Israeli Intelligence in Metlli.Toufic Fakhouri, one of the released
detainees recognized Mohamad El Jarrar, in 1987, in one of the Israeli
detention centers Located in Ramlah.



6-Jamil Amhaz, was kidnapped by the Israeli forces in 1984. According to his
family, he is imprisoned in the Chateh jail in Israel.



7-Mohamad Ali Hawa, was arrested by the Israeli forces in 1984 on Bater
crossing in Jezzine (Lebanon) and taken to the Aber center. His mother saw
him wounded and his leg was bleeding.



8-Mohamad Ali Gharib was kidnapped on Aug.12, 1984 by the Israeli
Intelligence on the Bater crossing in Jezzine. He was transferred to the
Homsieh hill then to Israel. His family reported that the freed detainee Ali
Noura has seen him in Atlit prison in 1985. The letter informed the ICRC
about his meeting with Gharib.



9-Hassan Ramez Ballout was arrested in 1984, in his hometown Kfarmelky by
the Israeli Intelligence. Ballout stayed in the Jezzine Barraks for eight
months. He was wounded and suffered infections in his leg.



10-Maher Kassir from Deir Kanoun el Naher Village. He was kidnapped by the
Israeli Intelligence on June 17, 1984 in the area of the Sciences University
Located in Chweifat (Southern Beirut).His fate is unknown.



11-Mohamad El Abouchi from Mina in North Lebanon. He was kidnapped in
1990.His family asserts that he is detained in Israel.



12-Jammal Habba from Sidon, South Lebanon was kidnapped at the Barbarra
checkpoint on 1982. His family asserts that he is in Israel.



13-Samir El Khorfan , a soldier in the Lebanese army was kidnapped in
Majdalyoun area on Oct.30, 1983.



Furthermore, there are mamy other missing persons due to the Israeli
occupation among them:

1-Hassan Sami Taha.

2-Hussein Zeid.

3- Ibrahim Nour el Din.

4- Mohamad Moallem

5-Nizard Ali Merhi.

6-Souheil Rammal

7- Khaled Kachmor

8-Khaled Chahine

9-Ali Kachmor

10-Said Bleibel

11-Taleb Abo Raya

12-Ahmed Harbawi



As well as the remains of dozens of Lebanese kept by Israel in secret graves
among whom those of:

1-Yahya El Khaled

2-Ayad Kassir

3-Hussein Daher

4-Elias Harb

5-Farjallah Fouaani



July War 2006



On July 12th, 2006, Israel launched a dire war against Lebanon and
consequently reoccupied some Lebanese territories. During its barbarian
assault, it committed many violations and kidnapped innocent civilians,
which brought back the memories of the 22 years of war forgotten on May
2000. Notwithstanding the cease-fire of August 14th, Israeli forces did not
suspend their kidnapping operations in bordering villages. It justified
these operations alleging that those detained were Hezbollah activists or
members, yet soon hours or days after it released them lacking to prove
their affiliation to the Hezbollah. Few soldiers were captured during the
military operations against Hezbollah combatants. Israel is still detaining
those persons inside its prisons. They are subject to trial and are
convicted of terrorism and affiliation to a hostile movement.



Herein a list of the detained persons from the Lebanese territories during
the war and after its end:



1- July 20th, 2006: Moiin and Ali FARES, two builders were detained in
Maroun El Ras. They were hiding in the school of the village with 11
siblings mostly children and women in order to flee the massive bombing
towards Yaroun. On the road, Israeli commandos attacked them. They were
locked in a house in Maroun El Ras where they served as human shields
starving and without water. On July 25, Israeli troops took AIi and Moiin
FARES; they blind folded their eyes and handcuffed them. They drove them
into the occupied territories and incarcerated them in Salha prison. They
were subject to interrogations and torture and were released one day after.
The 2 men were took in a military car to the UNIFIL HQ in Naqoura where the
Lebanese army took them.



2- August 1st, 2006: Israeli carried out an operation in Oyon El Siman –
North Lebanon. Mohamad SLIM was shepherding his herd. The soldiers
handcuffed and blindfolded him. A helicopter took him into the occupied
territories. He was incarcerated in an individual cell and interrogated
several times. He was accused of collaboration with Hezbollah and tortured.
Mohamad tells that he was afraid from eating since they gave him an
injection that caused dizziness and nausea. 5 days later he was taken took
in a military car to the UNIFIL HQ in Naqoura.

There the Lebanese army took him. Mohamad said that they released him once
they were certified that he is not affiliated to the Hezbollah.



3- August 2nd, 2006: Israeli commandos carried out a military operation in
Jmalieh with a defined target: to detain the SG of Hezbollah Sayed Hassan
Nassrallah from El Hekmeh medical center, a hospital affiliated to
Hezbollah. The commandos invaded the hospital, killed 17 civilians and
detained 5 others alleging that they were executives in Hezbollah. Later on,
it appeared that a civilian called Hassan NASSRALLAH was amongst those
detained. The truth is that the Israeli commandos burst into the house of
Hassan NASRALLAH, owner of a grocery and detained him with his son Bilal,
Mohamad CHAKER car mechanist, Hassan BURJI a builder and Ahmad EL AOUTA a
tile designer. Israeli investigators were convicted that Hassan and bilal
his son were themselves the SG of Hezbollah and his son. All the detained
tell that they were handcuffed and blind eyes folded on their feet into an
Israeli helicopter waiting for them and they were taken into Sri prison near
Tel Aviv. They were cruelly subject to psychological and physical torture.
Few days later Israel released them and confessed that they were civilians
not Hezbollah members.



4- August 11th, 2006: Common forces members were detained in Marjeyoun
casern after the occupation of Marjeyoun. The artillery of the 350 internal
forces and soldiers were confiscated. The international community interfered
and the Israeli troops accepted to let set them free. Still, Israeli
aircrafts bombed the convoy composed of hundred of civilians and military
vehicles in Bekaa Garbi and Kefraya alledging that hezbollah members have
concealed their weapons and activists amongst them. 7 civilians were killed
and 14 others wounded.



5- August 18th, 2006: 4 days after the cease-fire, the Israeli forces
detained Abdallah MALAK, from his house in Beit Leif – a bordering village
in Bint Jbeil.



6- August 23rd, 2006: The Israeli soldiers set an out of the blue barrage
and detained 3 civilians from their cars in Kantara. A ½-hour interrogation
was conducted with Mohamad and Hassan ABDEL HUSSEIN and Hassan Junior. The
latter was released but the adults were taken into the occupied territories.
They were handcuffed, blind eye folded and interrogated. On the same day,
Mahmoud KHATIB from El Ghajar was detained and convicted of collaboration
with Hezbollah.



7- August 24th, 2006: Israeli soldiers detained from Rab Thalathin, Hussein
KASSEM and Youssef YASSINE. They were interrogated for ½ hour in the
occupied territories and then released.



8- September 8th, 2006: Israeli troops detained 6 civilians from Aita El
Chaeb. Those persons were inspecting a center for special needs on the out
skirts of the village. They were driven into the occupied territories
handcuffed and blind eyes folded. The Israeli interrogated Hassan DAKDOUK,
employee in the General security, Taher TAHINI, Kamal HARISI, Mohamad SROUR,
Ali KASSEM and ALI OBEID detained in Marwahin on the same day and released
them on September 10.



Israel has also detained 4 persons whom it has suspected their affiliation
to Hezbollah during the field battles. The whereabouts of three were
revealed: Hussein SLEIMAN (22 years) who appeared on the Israeli TV and
spoke about the kidnapping of the 2 Israeli soldiers on July 12th in Aita El
Chaeb, Mahmoud SROUR (20 years old) and Maher KOURANI (26 years).



Israel has kidnapped as well Hasan Akeel on 14/08/2006 and Khodor Zeidan
adding up the following names to the Lebanese Detainees list:



1- Maher Kourani (26 Years) born in 1981, from Yater village in Bint Jbeil
District, married and has a child 3 years old. Maher lives with his family,
his own house and his family's house were destroyed completely during the
Israeli aggression, his wife and child and his mother live at his brother's
home in the village.



2- Hussein Sleiman (22 years) born in 1985, from Bint Jbeil district. Single
and lives with his family in Southern Suburb of Beirut. The house was
destroyed during bombing which pushed the family to move to another area in
Beirut. He was still studying in the Lebanese University.



3- Mohammed Srour (20 years) born in 1987, from Aita Shaab village, single
and lives with his family whose home was totally destroyed that made them
move to their relatives. He was still studying in one of the institutions.



4- Hasan Akeel (46 years) born in 1961 from Jebeen village, married and has
4 children, works in agriculture. He was abducted on 14/08/2006 by the
Israel forces 2 weeks before the cease-fire. Although he has schizophrenia
and the ICRC submitted the reports that proves that, but the Israelis are
still detaining him.



5- Khodor Zeidan from Marwaniyyeh village, single and lives with his family
in the Southern Suburb of Beirut.



On September 18, 2006 the Israeli Penal Court convicted them of murder and
affiliation to a terrorist organization. A civil trial shall be carried out
in Nassora – occupied Palestine.

Kidnapping and detaining these civilians on the Lebanese territories and
taking them into Palestine is a serious violation to the 4th convention of
Geneva on taking Hostages into another country. Keeping those detained
during the war in the Israeli prisons breaches the international resolution
1701 since the suspension of military operations should have occurred
concurrently with an immediate release of all the hostages and detained and
their immediate return to their homelands.

The Follow-Up Committee urges the international community to put pressure
over Israel in order to stop the detention of civilians and to release all
those kept in its prisons.



FOLLOW-UP COMMITTEE FOR THE

SUPPORT OF THE LEBANESE

DETAINEES IN THE ISRAELI PRISONS

&

KHIAM REHABILITATION CENTER

FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE



30/03/2007
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