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...Hermon, has been known as "Fatahland" because Palestinian guerrillas regularly cross it from havens in Syria to infiltrate the Israeli border. In reprisal for fedayeen raids, or to deter recurrences, Israeli aircraft, artillery and armored columns have regularly punished the Lebanese countryside. Last week's bombing of Hasbaya, Rashaya Fukhar and four other villages, according to the Lebanese government, marked the 65th Israeli air attack on southern Lebanon; in addition, there have been more than 1,000 artillery barrages and 222 armed border crossings...
Almost every village in southern Lebanon has its variation on a common theme of misery. Last week TIME Correspondent William Stewart visited Rashaya Fukhar in the heart of the Arqub and sent this report...
...Udaysah, the Lebanese road parallels an Israeli road across the barbed-wire border. Israeli automobiles zoom along past rich orchards and a soldier grins and waves. Rashaya Fukhar is slightly different from other villages in the Arqub. For one thing, most of its inhabitants are Christian. For another, every structure in the village is made of stone, which can save lives. Almost every house has doors off hinges, cracked walls or damaged roofs; some have been totally destroyed. Two months ago, a villager named Elias Gibran was caught in the fields during an air raid and killed. He was Rashaya...
Black Hulks. Rashaya Fukhar was once populous and happy. But 2,500 of its people have emigrated to Europe and the U.S. in the past 20 years or more. In a second wave of emigration, another 1,000 have fled the bombings since 1970. Only 500 villagers remain. Recent raids have turned their 1,000-year-old olive trees into twisted black hulks and churned their fields full of bomb craters...
...battles began when Israeli troops, in reprisal for the deaths of six people at fedayeen hands, attacked guerrilla bases in "Fatahland" between the Hasbani River and Lebanon's Syrian border. The raids were almost surgical, reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott after a visit to the village of Rashaya al Foukhar, one of five communities that the Israelis occupied overnight. Alerted by the sound of a spotter plane and the thud of incoming artillery rounds, the 500 Christian villagers had taken refuge in their church. Israeli soldiers dynamited 15 houses, twelve of which had been occupied by guerrillas, and bulldozed...
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