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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that some Christian villages in southern Lebanon had asked to be annexed by Israel, in order to be protected from Hezbollah.
“Christian villages in Lebanon, some of them have actually asked to be annexed to Israel, because we protect them against the Hezbollah, Hezbollah fanatics who want to kill them, and we do the same things with Christians everywhere,” Netanyahu told Fox News’s show, The Sunday Briefing.
Netanyahu did not name the Christian villages he said had made such a request.
Christian villages in the Marjeyoun area of southern Lebanon on Friday denied some media reports suggesting they had sought annexation, saying in a statement they had “no power nor the legal right” to make decisions of such magnitude.
