The sign bearing the name of the village of Kabrikha back in place, and the road leading to the village reopened by the Lebanese Army. (Credit: National News Agency)
The municipal council of the village of Kabrikha, in the Marjayoun district, announced that it has dismantled — in cooperation with the Lebanese Army — a roadblock of soil placed by the Israeli army during its incursion into the locality, which had cut off the town's main thoroughfare. They also reinstalled the sign bearing the village's name, which the Israeli soldiers had removed.
"When the enemy arrived at the fork in the road between the villages of Kabrikha and Kantara," a statement from the municipality reads, "after its incursion into the Wadi Hojeir area [on Thursday], its soldiers set about installing earth embankments, in clear violation of Resolution 1701 and the cease-fire agreement." They also "removed and stole the signpost bearing the name of the village." The 'cease-fire' came into effect on Nov. 27, but since then, the Israeli army has continued to advance into southern Lebanese municipalities, detonating and bulldozing buildings. Shelling and airstrikes have also been ongoing, with the Israeli army killing dozens of people despite the supposed cessation of hostilities.
The municipality described destroying the Israeli army's embankments and replacing the village sign as "acts of resistance and defiance against this enemy and his aggressions, and a message of attachment to our land."
After their incursion into the Wadi Hojeir valley in southern Lebanon on Thursday, Israeli soldiers quickly withdrew following the "reinforced" deployment of the Lebanese Army. The latter stressed on Thursday evening that this withdrawal had taken place "following contacts made by the committee" in charge of monitoring compliance with the cease-fire agreement.
