On July 12th, 2006, Israel launched a dire war against Lebanon and consequently reoccupied some Lebanese territories. During its barbarian assault, it committed many violations and kidnapped innocent civilians, which brought back the memories of the 22 years of war forgotten on May 2000. Notwithstanding the cease-fire of August 14th, Israeli forces did not suspend their kidnapping operations in bordering villages. It justified these operations alleging that those detained were Hezbollah activists or members, yet soon hours or days after it released them lacking to prove their affiliation to the Hezbollah. Few soldiers were captured during the military operations against Hezbollah combatants. Israel is still detaining those persons inside its prisons. They are subject to trial and are convicted of terrorism and affiliation to a hostile movement.

Herein a list of the detained persons from the Lebanese territories during the war and after its end:

1- July 20th, 2006: Moiin and Ali FARES, two builders were detained in Maroun El Ras. They were hidding in the school of the village with 11 siblings mostly children and women in order to flee the massive bombing towards Yaroun. On the road, Israeli commandos attacked them. They were locked in a house in Maroun El Ras where they served as human shields starving and without water. On July 25, Israeli troops took AIi and Moiin FARES, they blind folded their eyes and handcuffed them. They drove them into the occupied territories and incarcerated them in Salha prison. They were subject to interrogations and torture and were released one day after. The 2 men were took in a military car to the UNIFIL HQ in Naqoura where the Lebanese army took them.

2- August 1st, 2006: Israeli carried out an operation in Oyon El Siman – North Lebanon. Mohamad SLIM was shepherding his herd. The soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded him. A helicopter took him into the occupied territories. He was incarcerated in an individual cell and interrogated several times. He was accused of collaboration with Hezbollah and tortured. Mohamad tells that he was afraid from eating since they gave him an injection that caused dizziness and nausea. 5 days later he was taken took in a military car to the UNIFIL HQ in Naqoura.
There the Lebanese army took him. Mohamad said that they released him once they were certified that he is not affiliated to the Hezbollah.

3- August 2nd, 2006: Israeli commandos carried out a military operation in Jmalieh with a defined target: to detain the SG of Hezbollah Sayed Hassan Nassrallah from El Hekmeh medical center, a hospital affiliated to Hezbollah. The commandos invaded the hospital, killed 17 civilians and detained 5 others alleging that they were executives in Hezbollah. Later on, it appeared that a civilian called Hassan NASSRALLAH was amongst those detained. The truth is that the Israeli commandos burst into the house of Hassan NASRALLAH, owner of a grocery and detained him with his son Bilal, Mohamad CHAKER car mechanist, Hassan BURJI a builder and Ahmad EL AOUTA a tile designer. Israeli investigators were convicted that Hassan and bilal his son were themselves the SG of Hezbollah and his son. All the detained tell that they were handcuffed and blind eyes folded on their feet into an Israeli helicopter waiting for them and they were taken into Sri prison near Tel Aviv. They were cruelly subject to psychological and physical torture. Few days later Israel released them and confessed that they were civilians not Hezbollah members.

4- August 11th, 2006: Common forces members were detained in Marjeyoun casern after the occupation of Marjeyoun. The artillery of the 350 internal forces and soldiers were confiscated. The international community interfered and the Israeli troops accepted to let set them free. Still, Israeli aircrafts bombed the convoy composed of hundred of civilians and military vehicles in Bekaa Garbi and Kefraya alledging that hezbollah members have concealed their weapons and activists amongst them. 7 civilians were killed and 14 others wounded.

5- August 18th, 2006: 4 days after the cease-fire, the Israeli forces detained Abdallah MALAK, from his house in Beit Leif – a bordering village in Bint Jbeil.

6- August 23rd, 2006: The Israeli soldiers set an out of the blue barrage and detained 3 civilians from their cars in Kantara. A ½-hour interrogation was conducted with Mohamad and Hassan ABDEL HUSSEIN and Hassan Junior. The latter was released but the adults were taken into the occupied territories. They were handcuffed, blind eye folded and interrogated. On the same day, Mahmoud KHATIB from El Ghajar was detained and convicted of collaboration with Hezbollah.

7- August 24th, 2006: Israeli soldiers detained from Rab Thalathin, Hussein KASSEM and Youssef YASSINE. They were interrogated for ½ hour in the occupied territories and then released.

8- September 8th, 2006: Israeli troops detained 6 civilians from Aita El Chaeb. Those persons were inspecting a center for special needs on the out skirts of the village. They were driven into the occupied territories handcuffed and blind eyes folded. The Israeli interrogated Hassan DAKDOUK, employee in the General security, Taher TAHINI, Kamal HARISI, Mohamad SROUR, Ali KASSEM and ALI OBEID detained in Marwahin on the same day and released them on September 10.

Israel has also detained 4 persons whom it has suspected their affiliation to Hezbollah during the field battles. The whereabouts of three were revealed: Hussein SLEIMAN (22 years) who appeared on the Israeli TV and spoke about the kidnapping of the 2 Israeli soldiers on July 12th in Aita El Chaeb, Mahmoud SROUR (20 years old) and Maher KOURANI (30 years).

On September 18, 2006 the Israeli Penal Court convicted them of murder and affiliation to a terrorist organization. A civil trial shall be carried out in Nassora – occupied Palestine.

Kidnapping and detaining these civilians on the Lebanese territories and taking them into Palestine is a serious violation to the 4th convention of Geneva on taking Hostages into another country. Keeping those detained during the war in the Israeli prisons breaches the international resolution 1701 since the suspension of military operations should have occurred concurrently with an immediate release of all the hostages and detained and their immediate return to their homelands.

The KRC urges the international community to put pressure over Israel in order to stop the detention of civilians and to release all those kept in its prisons.