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Source of the Official Documents: Wathaqeyya Project.

Document type: "Temporary" ID Card
Document age: 45 years

The card belongs to Abu Ghaleb Ramal from the town of Al Odaisa during the occupation. Abu Ghaleb passed away before the liberation, and his passing was commemorated on the first anniversary of the liberation of Al Odaisa in 2000.

Document Type: Mechanical License
Document Age: 26 years

During the occupation, the South Lebanon Army established centers to register and inspect vehicles dealing with the Israeli enemy. Lebanese citizens living in the border strip or the security zone had special plates for their vehicles and annual inspection times. Civilians were required to surrender the plates and this license at the checkpoint when leaving the border strip and collect them upon return.

Document type: Publication - Text
Type of one of the leaflets thrown by the Israeli enemy during the July 2006 war in the sky of the town Al-Houloussiya. The publication is a text addressed to the fighters of Hezbollah, calling on them to escape and surrender. The publication is signed by the "Israeli Defense Forces Command".

1. Crossing permit issued by the Bint Jbeil District Command through the Beit Yahoun crossing, 12.4.2000. [This permit did not complete its function due to the Liberation of the South on May 25, 2000] The permit color is yellow and it is a card, not a paper. Number of permits: 4.
2. Identity card issued by the so-called "Free Lebanon State", issued on 25.10.1978. Number of identity cards: 2
3. His car plate registered in the Vehicles Registration Authority of the so-called "South Lebanon Army" bears the number 352 741. The car number is divided into two parts: the first of which, 352, represents the "Blida" area number, while the second number is the car number 741.

Document Type: Publication
Document Age: 37 years

A type of leaflets distributed by the Israeli occupation soldiers during their withdrawal from the Jezzine area, West Bekaa, and Mount Barouk on 24/4/1985.

Official document issued by what was known as the "Lebanon Liaison Unit: Civil Affairs". It is a crossing permit for a Lebanese citizen to and from the "security belt" or what is known as the resistance literature "the occupied border strip".
It is a rich material to study the nature of civil and military administrative rule in the occupied strip. From the rank designations to the seals. It is also material to approach the difficulties, challenges, and humiliation experienced by the people of the south in reaching their homes and villages in a project entitled: "Memory of Crossings" 

The Israeli planes dropped many leaflets over Lebanese territories addressing civilians during the July 2006 war. This is one of the means adopted by the enemy since the 1982 invasion to threaten civilians, urge them to leave, surrender, or not assist the resistance.
The above leaflet was dropped in July 2006 over specific residential areas: Haret Hreik, Bourj el Barajneh, Chiyah.

An official document issued by what was known as the 'Free State of Lebanon.' It is an identity card granted to a Lebanese woman from South Lebanon in 1979.
The 'Free State of Lebanon' was formed following the rebellion of Saad Haddad, a former officer in the Lebanese Army, against Lebanese legitimacy, and he declared the establishment of his state under the complete control of the Zionist enemy in April 1979.

Occupied Strip - Security Belt (June 1985)

The crossings that the locals used to pass through are specific crossings and not all of the crossings, which number 14 crossings and some of which were closed in the late 1980s. They are as follows:

1. The Red Hamra - Al-Biyadiyah Coastal Bridge Crossing. [Citizens are referred to it when the Beit Yahoun crossing is closed]
2. Zimriya - Marj Al-Zuhur Crossing [Reserved for the sons of the villages, towns, and farms of Hasbaya only]
3. Bater - Jezzine Crossing [The most famous crossing closed in February 1985 after the first withdrawal]
4. The Rihan - Kfar Houna Crossing
5. Arnon and Yehmur Crossing [Open only to the residents of the two towns]
6. Shoumariyah - Aalmann Crossing [Closed in the winter of 1986]
7. Shaqra - Hula Crossing [Opened in late 1986 after the closing of the Shoumariyah crossing, but it was also closed in 1987]

As for the Bussari and Raymat crossings, they were very specific crossings:
1. Bussari Crossing [Open only to pedestrians and trucks that used to transport dirt to the Siblin factory in the Chouf region]
2. Raymat Crossing [It was open to a limited number of teachers at the Sidon School and students from the villages of Berti and Wadi Al-Laymoon]

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2006