(Illustrative photo: Matthieu Karam/L'Orient Today)
How can L’Orient-Le Jour, an independent daily since 1924, document and narrate the events unfolding on the other side of the infamous "yellow line" established by Israel, which in effect cuts off a portion of southern Lebanon from the rest of the country? How can it maintain the connection with the 602 square kilometers — or 5.8 percent of the territory — that Israel has amputated by fire? How can it preserve the link with the 200,000 inhabitants who lived there before the Israeli invasion on March 2?Certainly, Israeli occupations have followed one another in the past: in 1978, then 1982 until the liberation of the territory in 2000. But never has the separation been so hermetic: this time, there is no way to slip through with contacts among militia members of the South Lebanon Army, or by using poorly monitored paths. Anyone...
How can L’Orient-Le Jour, an independent daily since 1924, document and narrate the events unfolding on the other side of the infamous "yellow line" established by Israel, which in effect cuts off a portion of southern Lebanon from the rest of the country? How can it maintain the connection with the 602 square kilometers — or 5.8 percent of the territory — that Israel has amputated by fire? How can it preserve the link with the 200,000 inhabitants who lived there before the Israeli invasion on March 2?Certainly, Israeli occupations have followed one another in the past: in 1978, then 1982 until the liberation of the territory in 2000. But never has the separation been so hermetic: this time, there is no way to slip through with contacts among militia members of the South Lebanon Army, or by using poorly monitored paths....
Humanitarian convoy reaches Rmeish, Ain Ibl, Dibil despite obstacles