Rmeish: Threats and Displaced Neighbors’ Departure With Army Escort

God forbid, are we agents? We don't want this talk that's been appearing in the newspapers.

Uh, he spoke to me, and I heard the phone in the way he spoke to me.

And I can't answer any other way. I mean, you know, he's going around threatening us and making threats.

That's what happened. We welcomed them with open arms.

We welcomed them into our homes. They weren't infiltrators at all.

They're children or Lebanese, he and she, staying with us, our neighbors.

But we've reached a point We are six thousand five hundred people in Rmeish.

There's nothing left but to protect ourselves.

They asked us that the people who are here with you if they contact anyone around you from the party, there'll be a different kind of talk.

We don't bear responsibility. And today, we can't impose a fine on every household or check who they're contacting on the phones.

But it's reached the point where it's clear to us either we stay alone and tell them we'll deal with them as a group, or as our neighbors, or they want to hit us, meaning there's no choice, there's no other solution.

So, we speak to everyone in a polite, respectful way.

We haven't let them down. We need to protect ourselves too.

There's a convoy they arranged on the Tabanos with the army.

The army found them accompanying them to cross the difficult area.

There's a shelter at their relatives' place, at their friends' place, or my family's. Now they're coming and distorting things, saying the mayor of Rmeish— They spoke to him while he was answering the call of, uh, the Israeli Defense Army.

No, man, we're not housewives. What call?

Are we, God forbid, collaborators? We don't want this talk that they're writing in the newspapers.

They're saying bad things, that we're answering their call.

We're responding to their requests, their wish to stay on our land, nothing more, nothing less.

Besides, if we didn't want neighbors, we wouldn't have welcomed them in the first place.