Liberated Towns and Villages in May 2000



LIST OF LEBANON'S LEGITIMATE DEMANDS FROM "ISRAEL"

  1. The Release of ALL Lebanese Prisoners
  2. The Withdrawal from Shibaa Farms and Kfar Shouba Hills annexed in 1967
  3. To Hand over ALL Maps of Landmines and Cluster Bombs in South Lebanon
  4. To Halt ALL violations of Lebanon's Land, Airspace and Territorial Waters
  5. To Acknowledge Lebanon's Right to control its Water Resources(1)
  6. To Demarcate the International Border back to its original 1923 boundary(2) to replace the U.N. Blue Line
  7. The Restoration of Seven Lebanese Villages(3)
  8. The Return of ALL Palestinian Refugees (about 350,000)
  9. To Bring to Justice Army Generals and Political Leaders involved in Crimes against Humanity
  10. "Israel" should pay Compensations for the Destruction of Lebanon and for the Families of the Massacred and the Injured in 1948, 1949, 1967, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1993, 1994, 1996, and 2006 Aggressions, Invasions, or Occupations.

(1) Hasbani river and Wazzani springs.
(2) Also known as the Armistice Demarcation Line (ADL) established as part of the General Armistice Agreement between Lebanon and "Israel" in 1949.
(3) The Seven Lebanese Villages, which form an area of 52 km2, are Terbikha, Salha, Malkiyeh, Qadas, Hounine, Nabi Youshaa, Ibel al-Qamah. These Villages were integrated into mandatory Palestine in 1923, when France and Britain redrew the borders between Lebanon, Palestine and Syria as part of the New-camp agreement.
The Residents of the Seven Villages fled to Lebanon in 1948 after the creation of "Israel". They registered themselves as Palestinian refugees to get entitled to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) social and economic benefits. The Villagers and their Descendants reclaimed their Lebanese Citizenship in 1994 after thirty years of appeals in the Lebanese courts.



Lebanon by Tyros