Christian-majority villages along Lebanon's southern border have rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that they sought to join Israel, reaffirming their commitment to the Lebanese state and dismissing the remarks as 'fabricated and completely detached from reality.'

The prime minister tells Fox News that some villages in southern Lebanon sought Israeli protection from Hezbollah, saying Israel defends Christians there and elsewhere

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