Committee
of Support of the Lebanese
In
Enforced Exile in Israel,
Claude
Hajjar.
Outline:
THE
WAR AGAINST
“South Lebanon- south lebanese army”
From
1975 to 2005, Lebanon
lost definitely its Prosperity, Stability, Sovereignty, Independence
and Freedom.
But
the pattern of harassment, kidnappings and assassinations by PLO
operatives and Syrians in Palestinian uniforms had been ongoing since the mid-1960, when the PLO was founded, long
before the events of 1968-1969 and 1975.
Prior
to the founding of the PLO, Syria's rejection of Lebanon's right to
exist made it interfere in Lebanese affairs whenever it could: On
September 12, 1957 and May 3-8, 1958, when a contingent of Internal
Security Forces (ISF) was attacked and its members killed in Deir El
Ashayer; when 200 Syrian soldiers attacked and occupied the village
of Kfarchouba, in south Lebanon, killing the villagers and an
officer; and when 5 customs officers were assassinated in cold blood
at Masnaa, the crossing point at the Lebanese-Syrian borders.
From June to December 1958 the Lebanese army lost 35 soldiers.
Since that period, Palestinians/Syrians/ and later Syrian/Iranian agents kidnapped, tortured, massacred, assassinated, slaughtered, raped and booby-trapped hundreds of Innocent civilians, members of clergy, and Lebanese Army soldiers in the South, like in all the areas of Lebanon.
In
the South they attacked the villages of Jezzine, Kfarfalouss,
Naqura, Bint Jbeil, Marjaayoun, Qoleiaa, Hasbaya, Debil, Deir Mimass,
Ain El Mir, Roum, Anan, Shuwaya, Labaa, Rmeish, Kfarhouna, Aramta,
Rihane, Ain Ebel, Beit Lif, Tebnine, Bkassine, Aytoula, El Taybeh,
Sabbah, Houla and other regions of the South. They burned down and
razed to the ground houses, churches, schools, the only two available
hospitals, and entire villages to occupy the remaining (8%) Lebanese
territory that was still in 2000 free from the
Syrian/Palestinian/Iranian occupation, in order to undermine the
state of lull between Lebanon and Israel, forcing Lebanon to remain
until this day, the only active war front against Israel, under their
unique control (From Fattah Land to Hezbo Land).
An Officer of the South Lebanon Army reported to the media that between 1978 and 2000, 621 soldiers and 200 civilians were killed and assassinated, while 230 soldiers and 80 civilians were maimed. It was later confirmed that the overall number reached up to 1630 victims.
1976:
The
Lebanese Army units that were officially dispatched to the South in
1976, known as the SLA (South Lebanon Army), were composed as a start
of a nucleus of 600 regular Lebanese Army soldiers. In 1978, they
were cut off from the central government of Beirut by the PLO and by
renegade units of the Lebanese Army called "The Arab Army of
Lebanon" under the command of the deserter Lieutenant Ahmed Al
Khatib, but the South Lebanese Army remained on the payroll of the
Lebanese Army of Yarzé and the government until May 2000.
When
the Syrian completed the takeover of the country in 1990, they
remained loyal to the pledge of defending their country for decades,
even after their own government that was under Syrian control branded
them as the enemy.
The
Commanding officers were officially designated by the Beirut
Government and included over the years Saad Haddad, Sami Chidiac, and
Antoine Lahad.
The
number of soldiers reached 3000 and up to 5000 at the peak of their
Victory.
The
inhabitants of the region joined the South Lebanon Army to defend
their regions against Syro/Palestino/Iranian invasions; the same way
as the “ANSARS” did when they joined Prime Minister,
General Michel Aoun in Baabda for the war of Liberation in 1989.
In
1976, the South Lebanese Army was also known by its first name as
« The Army of the
Free
Lebanon” (Jeych Lebnaan el Horr).
The
Command of the Lebanese Army in Yarzé by its Army Commander
General Hanna Said and the Ministry of Defense issued and signed a
military communiqué in 1976, assigning Major Saad Haddad to
the Command of the South Lebanon Army.
He
was appointed Commander of the Division of Al Qoleiaa (Qaed Qatibet
al Qoleiaa) and the villages of Qoleiaa, Bourj El Moulouq, Qawqaba,
Rmeich, Debil, Ain Ebel and Jdeidet Marjaayoun. The Missions assigned
to that command included the command
functions of
regrouping the soldiers who fled after the fall of their barracks under the Palestinian Organization and Allies’ attacks;
Major Saad Haddad was also assigned to represent the Government in the South for all diplomatic contacts with the United Nations’ envoys.
Between
1979 and 1982, the Syrians pressured and forced President Elias Sarkis to charge Major
Saad Haddad and its Army of high treason, starting by cutting off
their pay.
The
pressure became more intense when the Syrians’ conspiracy to
send to the South a Lebanese Army division, called Qawqaba, in order
to attack and replace the South Lebanon Army, failed. The refusal of Major Saad Haddad to
collaborate with the Syrians by correspondence or direct contacts
only worsened the situation and increased the Syrians’ menace.
Kurt
Valdheim and Larskin from the UNIFIL, who were called to keep
official contacts ongoing with Major Saad Haddad, unveiled and
publicly criticized the Lebanese Government for using a double and
confusing position towards Saad Haddad and the United Nations..
After General Hanna Said’s departure, the Army Commander General Victor Khoury, signed and addressed an official military communiqué (Muzzaqaret El Khedme El Rasmiyeh) to Major Saad Haddad in order to validate the continuity of his functions in the South. All official correspondence that occurred between them, were being addressed as, “From the Army Commander General Victor Khoury to Commander of Al Sharqi Division, Major Saad Haddad…”
After the death of Major Saad Haddad in January 1984, the Command of the Army along with President Camille Chamoun’s support appointed retired General, Antoine Lahad, as Commander of the South Lebanese Army.
The
Command of the Army has been paying salaries since 1976 and up until
the year 2000, with the exception of a few years dating from 1979 to
1982.
Moreover,
whenever the roads between Marjaayoun and Beirut were shut down and
other means of transportation were quite impossible for the
disposition of salaries, the officer in charge, assigned by the
Command of the Army of Yarzé, was entering Marjaayoun by sea
through the port of Haifa in Israel.
Following
the Presidential instruction, the South Lebanese Army opened the road
to Israel for the sole purpose of survival and humanitarian reasons
(lack of hospitals, starvation, illnesses….) and in no case as
a means of collaboration.
President
Sleiman Franjiyeh gave the instruction and the right to use the only
opened door to Israel. He had no other alternatives than, either to
leave the Southerners die and give in to diseases, injuries,
starvation…or to save them, allowing them to access Israel’s
borders. President Franjieh based his choice uniquely on a
conscientious perspective.
President Camille Chamoun encouraged and congratulated publicly the bravery of the South Lebanese Army through its Commander, “Thank to Major Saad Haddad and his Army, the South will not face the same destiny as other regions like Damour, Jiyyeh, Saaidiyet did… the Genocide and the total Exodus”…
BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF THE SOUTH:
1. Mansour Khalil | 7. Abdel Hassan S. Hassan | 13. Awada Wafic |
2. Akanen Ali | 8. Fakih Mohammad | 14. Abbass Adel |
3. Alik Samih | 9. Hijazy Fouad | 15. Shour Salah |
4. Droubi Hassan | 10. Kassem Ali Hussein | 16. Farhat Hussein |
5. Marmar Ali |
11. Taoube Bahige | 17. Assayed Mohammad Mustafa |
6. Mustafa Yasser | 12. Mawwassi Abed |
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Today, the rest of them in Enforced Exile have to pay the price of their acts, acts of loyalty, honor, dignity and patriotism.
Today,
they are called to stand before the “Justice”!
What kind of
Justice is that? What kind of Justice dares to persecute, arrest,
trial or even face for one second those who fought like Heroes, like
Patriots?
Do we also have to thank them for not labeling them any longer as “Traitors” and consider it as an act of Mercy???
Abu Samira, a 70-year-old man, and 65-year Ramez Boulos, from Qoleiaa, both died under torture and from ill-treatment, in the year 2000 after they surrendered. Abu Samira died in Oberly’s Jail; Ramez Boulos succumbed home after they departed him agonizing from ill-treatment, in Roumieh’s prison;
Hundred of Southerners, civilians, soldiers and entire Families
HAVE BEEN ABANDONED OR FORGOTTEN...
It
is true that their fate is in God’s hands but it is also in
yours.
Do
not keep silent, let the truth explode…Let them rest in
peace…
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I
sincerely regret not having listed all the victims and martyrs’
names. All the names appearing
in this compilation were obtained from newspaper reports, archives,
witness accounts, friends or families sources and Lebanese in Israel
website, “http://www.lebaneseinisrael.com/
Akl
Hashem (Officer - Debil, January 1, 2000).
Akiki (PVT - Debil,
January 31, 2000).
Fawzi El Saghir (PVT - September 28, 1999).
Milia Naaman Rashed (72 years old - Jezzine).
Maroun Neehme
Neehme (67 years old Qoleiaa).
Salima Neehme (60 years old -
Qoleiaa).
Youssef Massoud Rizk (Jezzine - August 20, 1976).
Tanios El Tenn (Rmeish - September 1976).
Hanne Michael El
Haddad (Ain Ebel - July 1976)
Michael
El Haddad (Ain Ebel - July 1976).
Joseph El Haddad (Ain Ebel -
July 1976).
Mona Youssef Chbat (Ain Ebel - September 1975).
Youssef Tanios Salloum (Ain Ebel - June 1977).
Youssef Gerges
Nassif (Debil - February 1977).
Boutros Michael El Akh (Ain Ebel
- September 1975).
George Gerges (Jezzine, April 1998).
Tony
Kfoury (Rashaya - March 6, 1985).
Mustafa
Khalil (Zoghdraya-Sidon - June 6, 1985).
Abdel Raouf El Hajj
(Sidon - June 30, 1985).
Mahmoud
Hafouda (Sidon - June 30, 1985).
Sleiman El Asmar (Sidon -
August 30, 1985).
Maroun Matar (January 22, 1986).
Wadih
Moussa (Jabal Safi - February 14, 1986).
Philip Moussa (Jabal
Safi - February 14, 1986).
Khalil Trabulsi (Ayneta - February
17, 1986).
Jihad Saykali (Rihane - June 20, 1986).
Antoine
Abu Ghannam (Yater Road - June 15, 1986).
Assaad Moussa
(Labaa-Kfarfalouss-Ain El Mir - June 19, 1986).
Edgard Hakim
(Darb El Sim - June 20, 1986).
Dani Najm (Sabbah-Jezzine - July
5, 1986).
Lucien Estephan (Tallet Sejod - August 10, 1986).
Khalil El Jellad (Tallet Sejod - September 18, 1986).
Joseph
Youssef (Tallet Sejod - September 18, 1986).
Elie Youssef (Anan
Kfarfalouss - June 1986).
Charbel Kassouf (Jabal Safi - April
1987).
Jad Morkos (Anan-Kfarfalouss - September 1987).
Youssef Matta (Jabal Safi - October 1991).
Tony Hourani (Ain
Majdalain-Jezzine - May 1992).
Tony Bakhos (Kroum el Arz-Jezzine
- October 1995).
Assaad Nammour (Sabbah-Bkassine - September
1996).
Hussein El Fkih (Sabbah-Bkassine - September 1996).
Selim Risha (Roum-Bessry - December 1996).
Samir Youssef
Roumiyeh (Kfarhouna - March 1997).
George Gerges (Jezzine- April
1998).
Roukoz Roukoz (Ain Majdalain-Jezzine - September 1998).
Joseph Chamoun (Ain Majdalain-Jezzine - September 1998).
Two
students (Anan-Roum Road - 1988).
Two students
(Kfarhouna-Jezzine - 1997).
Ezzat Elias Julien, his mother, wife
and three (3) children (Qoleiaa).
Keyrouz
Barakat (Officer).
Akl Hashem |
Ahmad Saad Aniess Assaf Abdallah Mustafa Assass Khiami Ali Hamade Abbas Hammoud Ali Beydoun Ahmad Nassrallah Albert Agnatis Ahmad El daaboul Ali Younes Ayoub El haddad Ahmad Madani Assad Harfouch Attef Chedid Assad Alloud Ashraf El qader Ayman Abdallah Afif El chuffi Aziz Khalili Antoine Frem Ali Ramadan |
Anwar Hamad Ali Qassem AbdEl Rahim Abu Eid Asaad Nasser Ali Zaher Antoine HobeikA Adel Madi Abdel wahab Daher Aline Elham Assaad Nohra Ali Salame Ali Abu Qassem Assaf El fhayli Ali Hammoud Ali Joumaa Antoine Dia Abed Abu samra Ange El hajj Antoine Julien Abdallah Chahin Ali Soueid |
Bahij Touba |
Boulous Attieh |
Boulos Nehme |
Chabib El naddaf |
Chafik Eid |
Charbel El chaar |
Dany Al sheikh |
Dib Nassif |
Daher Salame |
Eid Chehad |
Elias Farah |
Emile Aoun |
Faraj Kalash Fayez Younes Fadel Jaafar Fayssal Fneich Fady Saade Fayez Julien Fares Abu samra Fares Toubia |
Fouad Rizk Fares Jabbour Fouad Abu zeid Fares N. Fares Fady El zaybak Fouaz Fouaz Farid Abu diab Fayez Abu hamadi |
Fahed El harfouch Fady Barakat Fady Saraya Fouad Younes FAWZI EL sajir Fares Fares Fouad Hijazi Farid Saaid |
jaoudat Deghman Joseph Abu arraj George El hajj Jihad Harb George Massaad Jamal Dakik George Geadaa Jihad louka George Habboub Jamal El sayyed Geryiss Abboud Jean Hatoum George Sakr Jihad Haydar Geryis Khalil Jean Chalhoub George T. Abboud Jamil Chaoul |
Geryis Bassar Joseph Daher George Hanoun Jihad Abu samra Ghazi Awad Jean Fouwaz George Maroun Jihad Saykali George El haddad Joseh El sheikh George Abdoush Jean El hajj Ghazi Diab Joseph Youssef George Farah Jean Roufayel George Saad ` Jaoudat Soueid |
George Abu mrad Jihad Moussa Ghassan Nohra Ghassan Abu mrad Geryes Azar George Abu elia Gaby kaabour Gaby Abu farhat Gilbert Jabbour Geryis Estefan George Jabbour Galeb Khreis George Saade Geryis Abu kheir George Kassas Ghassan Rizk Ghassan Al oud Geryis El Hourani |
Hussen Abdel nabi Hussen Farhat Hussen Mlakh Hassan Droubi Hasssan Dabja Haydar El haddad Hassan Saleh Hassan Ewila Hassan El s. hassan Hassan Saab Hussein Nakhle |
Hussein Chahla Hassan Ashur Hanna El naddaf Hassan Bassal Hanna Sakr Habib Nassif Hayssam Oulayan Hanna El khoury Halim El hourany Hamzah Serhan Hassan Zaarour |
Hussein Yehya |
Ibrahim El haddad Issam Beydoun Ibrahim Assaf Ibrahim Khalil Imad Attieh Ismaeil Abbas |
Ibrahim Hamid Ibrahim Saaid Issa Hanna Ibrahim El akdouch Ibrahim Atweh Issam Krasen |
Issam Ali sami Inad Majid Ismaeil Kamra Ibrahim Abu kheir Ibrahim El hayek Ibrahim Chehade |
Khalil El hourani Khodr El hendi Khaled El naddaf Khalil Mansouri Kamel Fayad Khalil El jalad Kamel El shartouni |
Kamel Hussein Khalil Hanna Kassem El daaboul Khaled Fneich Khodr Al tawil Khalil Rizk Khristo Nistrof |
Khairallah Salame Khadiji Nour el din Khalil Naamtallah Khalil Gharibe Khalil El rajraj Khaled Betdini Kamel Damouri |
Loubnen Wanna |
Maroun El alam Mustafa Al sayyed Mohammad Fakih Maroun Al karout Massoud Bazzi Maroun Matar Mahmoud Ayoub Mohammad Abd el Meneem Mohammad Shit Mosbah El attrash Mohammad Yaacoub Mahmoud Raslan Mohammad Hussein Mustafa Bedran Miled Ghanouy Mohammad Halawa Maroun ATTIEH Mahdi Mahdi Maroun Nassif Mohammad Nassar Mohammad Fakih Moussa Abu elias |
Maroun Fares Malek Nassif MIKHAIL El hajj Miled Ghnatis Maroun El hajj Mufdi Abu sari Mahmoud El yann Mohammad Wahid Mahmoud Srour Mohammad Okayl MARGUERITE El khoury Mikhael El haddad Monah Touma Michel Fares Mikhael El zaybak Mikhael Ncoula Maroun Nohra Maroun Khleis Mohammad Sleiman Maroun Wehbeh Mohssen Ibrahim Maroun Milan Maroun Hanna |
Maroun Rizk Mouhib El ghazel Miled El hassbani Mohammad Ghaleb El abdallah Morkos M. Rizk Moussa Abdallah Maroun Nasser Miled Saade Mohammad Ramadan Mohammad El anz Merhej Chahin Mustafa Al shufi Mohammad Yassin Mohammad El kaderi Maher Ammach Mounir Daaybes MAHMOUD WAZIR Majid Ghachem Michel Fares Mustafa El khawli Mikhael khoury Mohssen ibrahim |
Naiim Hanna Nasri El hourani Nassrat Khreish Nabil andraos Nabil Al joundi Nasri Abu elias |
Nabil Nassif Naim Fares Nazih El miligi Nadim Kaboura Nassib El hamra Nohad El hajj |
Nehme Faour Nader El chufi Nabih Abed el hay Nabil Nasser Nohad Saade Nohra Nohra |
Ossama Yassin | Pierre Attieh | Pierre Bowab |
Rafik Mtanios Rony Haddad Rabah Abdallah Raef El keserwani Roufayel Roufayel |
Rafik Tomeh Raymond Mezher Rafik Abu el ali Rabih Nammour Ramy El choufi |
Rafik Abu hamad Riyad Zrekta Raymond el khoury Roukouz Roukoz Raji Ghanoum |
Saad Haddad Said El alam Samih El eik Saleh Chour Salman Kashmer Simon Tanios Sami El nashash Salame Salame Souheil Abbas |
Sami Kotaysh Salem Aayoub Said Felfeleh Simon Antounian Samir Khnafer Salam El saadi Salim Ahmad Simon Anid Salim El Chuffi |
Salim Sakr Said El naddaf Sakr Sakr Sami Abu samra Said El khoumesi Simon Tanios Sara Ghanoum |
Tanios Felfeleh TANnOUS GERYIS Tarif Taleb Tannous Saad Tanios Semaan |
Tanios Karam Tanios Abu hamad Tanos Abu zeid Tanios Elias Tanios Zraet |
Tanios Aoun Tony Nohra Tony Majid Nammour |
Wafik Awada Wissam Naiim |
Wihab Faraj Walid Kassab |
Wissam Taha |
Youssef Hanna Youssef Younes Yasser Mustafa Youssef Salloum Youssef Atweh Youssef M. Al raai Youssef Manssour Yasser El jamal Youssef k. Nassif Youssef J. El raai Youssef Hanna |
Youssef Fares Youssef Younes Youssef El naddaf Youssef Saaid Younes Younes Yehya Semaat Youssef Younes Youssef El sayed Youssef Semaan Youssef Nassif Youssef Felfeleh |
Yaacoub El hajj Youssef Karam Youhanna Kiyo Youssef Boulos Yaacoub Diab Youssef Semaan Youssef Roumieh Youssef Mezher Youssef Hamdan Youssef Charaf el din |
Ziad Ridan | Ziad Abu dehen | Zaynab Monder |
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(Translation
of the Official Document)
Military CommuniquÉ:
« Ministry
of National Defense – Army Command – Yarzé”
Number:
3860 /1 T
Classification:
323-1
Resolution:
22/ 3/ 1976
Issue:
Creation of a military regrouping section
Distributed
and Implemented: 14/ 8/ 1976
Signed:
« General Hanna Saiid, Army
Commander »
1- THE STATUS:
After the dissolution of the section established in the South and the distribution of the soldiers in their villages or their refuge to safer regions, a number of soldiers joined the District of Bent Jbeil or few villages for security matters.
2- THE RESOLUTION:
21 – Create a regrouping quarter in the District of Bent Jbeil.
The Affiliation: Will be affiliated to the assembly of Qoleiaa
The Location: Town of Rmeish
Person in charge: Sergeant Commando, Samir el Hajj assisted by
Sergeant Hanna El Hajj.The Members: The Soldiers present in Bent Jbeil District, the neighboring Districts
and those who did not join any assembly quarter yet.- The soldiers from other quarters who wish to join it.
22 – The Administrative Control Directorate undertakes to facilitate the salary phase and food provision similar to those soldiers under Qoleiaa regrouping command.
3- The Implementation :
Will take effect at the publication of this communiqué.
Al Yarzé, 14 / 8 / 1976
General Hanna Said, Army Commander.
ADDRESSEE:
Section,
Barracks and Regrouping Quarters;
All
Services located in the building of the Army Command;
(Unreadable)
??: “3”.