BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 31 -- A group of Iranians visited the Lebanese-Israeli border on Sunday where they threw stones on an Israeli position on the other side of the fence to show support with the Palestinian Intifada (Uprising) and Lebanese resistance.
Some 150 Iranians, mostly veiled female students under the age of 18, arrived in buses from Iran via Syria to the Lebanese border gate of Fatma, waving pictures of late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini and spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
They shouted slogans in Persian denouncing Israel and supporting Palestinian and Lebanese resistance against Israeli occupying forces.
Some of them threw stones on an Israeli position located on the other side of the fence while the soldiers remained inside their post away from the protesters sight.
The Iranians joined a number of Lebanese who inspected the site on the Fatma gate where Hilal al-Hajj, a 22-year-old Lebanese man, was killed Saturday by Israeli fire from across the border. Lebanese President Emile Lahoud gave instructions to lodge a complaint with the United Nations Secretariat-General against Israel for the killing of al-Hajj and the injury few days earlier of five Lebanese civilians, including a five-year-old boy, in similar Israeli shooting on the nearby Abbad border area.
Lahoud said Lebanon has previously warned in several complaints to the U.N. of the repeated Israeli aggressions "which began to take an escalating aspect that Israel alone bears the responsibility of its continuation."
The president said his country will not "allow that its land and border be an escape for Israel to get out of its internal political divide especially after its peace negotiations with the Palestinians stumbled and political disputes increase with the approach of the Israeli elections."
