Lebanese fisherman Mohammed Haidar inspects his fetch after coming lend a hand from a fishing outing in the Mediterranean Sea, in the port of metropolis of Tyre, Lebanon, Sept. 13, 2006
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Fishermen in Lebanon’s coastal metropolis of Sidon divulge they’re struggling to make ends meet after Israel warned all americans to defend remote from sea.
The Israeli military warned residents to evacuate from over a dozen towns and villages in southwestern Lebanon, including the coastal town of Naqoura, where U.N. peacekeepers are headquartered.
“You have about 400 or 500 fishermen who need to make a living; they need to eat and feed their families,” Mohammed Baouje, a fisherman from Sidon acknowledged.
“If they don’t work for a day, they could end up begging on the street. Israel is banning us from going out to sea, which doesn’t make sense. What can we find in the sea? There’s nothing there to justify stopping the fishermen from going out,” he added.
Israel has called on other folks to evacuate several dozen communities across southern Lebanon, tons of them north of a U.N.-declared buffer zone established after the Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006.
Israel says its operations are geared toward halting a 300 and sixty five days of Hezbollah rocket attacks so that tens of hundreds of its electorate can return to their properties in the north.
Hezbollah has vowed to maintain up the attacks till there is a stop-fire in Gaza.
The fighting, which escalated in mid-September, has displaced over 1 million Lebanese.
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