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Israeli Flees to Lebanon to Escape ‘Social Suffering’

The Israeli man who jumped the border fence into Lebanon last week did so to escape “his suffering in Israeli society,” writes Nasser Chararah.
U.N. peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)patrol on their vehicles at the area near the border between Lebanon and Israel in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, May 5, 2013. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) - RTXZAZW
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On Thursday, May 3, 2013, an Israeli man in his 30s jumped the border fence separating Lebanon and Israel and was arrested by Lebanese army intelligence shortly after. During his interrogation, he said that he fled Israel voluntarily because he was suffering socially in Israeli society.

Al-Monitor learned — from sources inside the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which assigned an officer to be present during the Israeli man’s interrogation — the man’s identity, his story’s details and why he fled to Lebanon.

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