Lebanese Youth Flees Israel to his Southern Hometown
A Lebanese citizen has fled Israel to his southern hometown of Qlayaa after crossing the border at Marjayoun-Khiam.
An Nahar newspaper reported Wednesday that Beshara Ibrahim Rizk, 24, crossed a barbed wire separating the two countries and headed to the home of Qlayaa Mayor Bassam Hasbani who handed him over to local security forces.
Rizk fled to Israel along with his parents when he was only 14 years old after Israel withdrew from south Lebanon and the western Bekaa in the spring of 2000.