Some 200 Palestinian deportees living for the past year in a tent camp in southern Lebanon are reported to be preparing to return to the administered territories later this month.
A year ago, Israel deported 415 Palestinians to Lebanon after a series of murderous attacks by Muslim extremists within Israel.
The deportees, who were suspected members of the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements, have been living in a camp at Marj al-Zahour in Lebanon, some two miles north of Israel’s security zone.
On Sept. 9, Israel allowed 181 of the deportees to return to the territories, with the rest to return by the end of December.
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