Palestinians in Lebanon try to breach border to “extricate Palestine from the occupation’s claws,” says PA daily
Headline: “Refugees climb the separation wall between Lebanon and Palestine and break Israeli security cameras”
“For 100 years, the gunpowder of injustice and racism has been stronger than the gunpowder in the lethal weapon [of the occupation] – and today it has blown up in its face at the intersections of every Palestinian village and town, and first signs have appeared heralding victory in Jerusalem, Lod, the Shuafat [neighborhood of Jerusalem], Nablus, and the Gaza Strip (refers to violent Arab riots; see note below -Ed.)…
The Palestinian refugees in the diaspora – who have paid the tax of this enemy’s arrogance and barbarity unfairly and by force – saw a close victory in the heroic confrontations of their people and the shaming of their enemy, and suddenly Palestine seemed near. They came out from the refugee camps and their communities from northern Lebanon to its south, while taking one united position together with their people and expressing willingness to stretch out a hand to fight together with them, to defend Palestine, and to extricate it from the occupation’s claws. They demanded that the Lebanese authorities open the Palestinian-Lebanese border…
From the early morning hours [of May 15, 2021], buses transporting Palestinians came out of the refugee camps in northern [Lebanon], the Beqaa [Valley], Beirut, Sidon, Tyre, and all the Palestinian communities, and they succeeded in reaching the Lebanese (sic., Israeli) border, where Lebanese groups joined them. The [Lebanese] National News Agency reported that there was pushing and altercations broke out between the Palestinian demonstrators and the [Lebanese] security forces and army next to the Fatima Gate, after they attempted to cross the checkpoint that was placed there to prevent them from passing through the path leading to the Marjayoun plain, where the border between the two states is a wire fence…
The agency reported that a number of the demonstrators climbed the fence separating between Lebanon and occupied Palestine (i.e., Israel) at Kafr Kila, broke the Israeli enemy’s security cameras that are installed there, and threw rocks.
According to the agency, Palestinians at Marjayoun waved Palestinian flags and called out ‘[Remember] Khaibar, Khaibar, oh Jews! The army of Muhammad wants to return (see note below -Ed.).’”