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>JN May 24, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 94
Manpower Agency Provided Call Girls with ID Cards
By IsraelWire
A Haifa call girl service found a way to receive Israeli citizenship for the tourist working as call girls, in order to prevent their deportation. The northern district police raided a call girl service, and discovered that the girls had Israeli citizenship in the names of Israeli women. Police found that Israeli women had answered ads for a manpower agency, including photocopies of their identity cards. These names were then used to provide the call girls with false identities.
Chaos on Israel's Northern Border
By Meredith Buel (VOA-Jerusalem) & Arutz-7 News
A gun battle erupted Tuesday at a border crossing between Israel and southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have accelerated there withdrawal. Refugees continue to flee southern Lebanon as Israeli forces pull out.
A gunfight between Israeli soldiers and unidentified gunmen on the Lebanese side of the border broke out at a crossing point near the northern border town of Metulla.
Refugees from the Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army and their families who were lined up to cross the border ducked while bullets flew overhead.
It was not clear who fired from the Lebanese side. Israeli soldiers took cover behind military vehicles and returned fire. There was no immediate word of casualties. The exchange occurred after Israel withdrew its soldiers from a major military post in its rapidly diminishing occupation zone in south Lebanon. Hizbullah terrorists and civilians continued to pour into the area waving flags and shouting pro-guerrilla slogans.
The redeployment follows an Israeli decision to accelerate the pullback from the occupation zone after the collapse of the South Lebanon Army militia. Panicked militiamen from the SLA abandoned their posts and either surrendered to the Lebanese army or fled to the Israeli border, seeking asylum.
Israel set up tents on the shore of Lake Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee, to provide visas and some shelter to the militiamen who fled across the border.
Interior Minister Natan Sharansky told Arutz-7, "Some 1,600 people have arrived so far, and our office is helping them through their first stages - they will receive tourist status, and permission to work for a year. For the first few days, they will live in hotels that we have rented for the purpose. Later, they will be able to move around - many of them have already said that they want to live in other countries. We will help whoever wishes to stay here."
Arab Knesset member Taleb A-Sana demanded that Israel not provide help to the fleeing SLA soldiers, because they are "traitors who committed crimes. They should be tried in Lebanon."
Residents in northern Israeli communities were ordered back into bomb shelters. Many families fled south to get out of Hizbullah rocket range. The head of Israel's northern military command, Maj. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, says Israeli soldiers still occupy outposts north of the border where clashes with Hizbullah continue.
Dozens of villages in south Lebanon have been taken over by the Iranian-backed Hizbullah and civilians in the past few days. Israeli officials have repeatedly warned that there will be severe retaliation if guerrillas attack soldiers or civilians after the withdrawal. Israel has maintained a nine-mile wide buffer zone in south Lebanon since 1985 to protect northern communities from guerrilla attacks.
Lebanese Have a Different Viewpoint
By Edward Yeranian (VOA-Beirut)
More Lebanese civilians are returning home to villages recently evacuated by Israel and the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia, hundreds of whom have also surrendered to the Lebanese army.
SLA militiamen continue to surrender to the Lebanese army as the militia loses the backing of the Israeli army, which is pulling out of southern Lebanon.
On Lebanese government television, a little girl, who had just returned to the evacuated town of Bint Jbeil, explained her feelings. The girl says she is from the liberated village of Bint Jbeil which was "freed by the Islamic resistance."
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hizbullah, told reporters the fall of the Israeli security zone was the joint work of the Islamic resistance and ordinary Lebanese families. He says local people who had worked with Israel are not welcome to stay.
Nasrallah says the people he calls "collaborators" must leave with the Israelis. He says some people say this is revenge, but he says it is the best guarantee for the future.
Discrimination Against Blacks in the IDF
By IsraelWire
A plate of bones was left in front of the quarters of two Ethiopian soldiers in a southern IDF base, accompanied by a sign, "For the two black dogs," with their names.
Upon seeing the plate and sign, one of the soldiers, a lone soldier who does not have any family in Israel, called his commander, who in turn called military police demanding an investigation. The commander demanded to know who was behind the deplorable racist act which he said would not be tolerated.
All of the soldiers on the base were rounded up, but as expected, they denied the action. The two soldiers told Israel Radio that they continue to encounter discrimination towards blacks in the army.
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