A displaced Christian Lebanese boy on an Israeli kibbutz. His ill grand-father was left behind.

Roughly 6,500 Lebanese fled to Israel in May: men who served in the SLA, the Israeli-financed, Israeli-armed militia in Southern Lebanon; people who feared indiscriminate revenge against villages that collaborated with the occupier; laborers who once worked in Israeli fields; many women and children too. 

Families were cut in two by the newly sealed border. 

But as late as July some managed to dodge Hezbollah supervision and make a dash for Israel through a small metallic door conveniently set up for such purposes by the Israeli army near the border town of Metulla. 

And all through the summer, hundreds of people returned to Lebanon through the UN-manned gate at Naqura, on the Mediterranean coast. They returned for a variety of reasons: some were unhappy with the way they were treated by Israeli authorities; others were disappointed that no third country other than Germany was willing to grant them refugee status; many preferred to face Lebanese justice than live in exile in shabby housing, eating cafeteria food and without proper schooling for their children.