Israeli Soldiers Cross Barbed Wire in Wazzani

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Israeli troops crossed the barbed wire fence in the Wazzani area at dawn Wednesday and stayed at the river’s eastern bank for several hours before withdrawing to Israeli territories, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said an 11-member patrol crossed the fence at around 3:00 am and remained until 7:30 am near the area of al-Muntazahat.

However, the soldiers did not cross the U.N.-drawn Blue Line.

The Wazzani spring is a major source of the Hasbani river.

The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday that the Jewish state is mulling responses to the possibility that Lebanon will divert water from the Hasbani under the guise of the construction of a tourism resort near the border.

A senior Israeli army officer in the Northern Command told the newspaper that the resort, Hosn al-Wazzani, could be used to divert water from the river, which supplies 25 percent of the Jordan river’s waters.

Israel is concerned about the site’s proximity to the border, which lies not far from the Israeli town of Metulla.

Comments 6
Missing justlebanese 11 July 2012, 14:40

just one question, where is al muqawame?just a thought

Default-user-icon Db (Guest) 11 July 2012, 15:10

Gotta have your daily Israeli story. Slow news day in Lebanon?

Thumb benzona 11 July 2012, 15:20

It's most definitely an old illustration taken from the web...

FT/Mowaten/rudes and the other nicks... you should put an end to your schizophrenia.

Thumb bigsami 11 July 2012, 16:53

Right on benzona!

Default-user-icon love Lebanon (Guest) 12 July 2012, 11:45

http://www.uea.ac.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=f988fa66-e180-4e94-a243-b76531f20025&groupId=40159

The Association of the Friends of Ibrahim Abd el Al is pleased to announce the publication of the Hydropolitical Baseline of the Upper Jordan River, a study undertaken by the UEA Water Security Research Centre.
The Hydropolitical Baseline of the Upper Jordan River study examines the history and current politics of water use in the basin. An interdisciplinary lens interprets the archives of French and British authorities, Lebanese and Israeli river flow data, news media, interviews and unpublished official reports. Finding the distribution of the transboundary flows to be asymmetric in the extreme, the study investigates how the inequity has been achieved and is maintained. It also situates the Lebanon-Israel water conflict within the broader political conflict, and examines the effect of the 2006 war on water resources and water infrastructure.

Missing justlebanese 12 July 2012, 11:59

FT plz dont play it all around, u know "al muqawame" did not stop opposing these violations as a matter of respect to the peace/war decision!!!"Al Muqawame" is being distaracted by the corruption it is facing among its high rank leaders,they are no more resistance,they are big LIARS hidden behind a beautiful CAUSE