 I'm currently driving northbound through Israel. This time I'm going somewhere I've wanted to go for literally years. It's called Ghadjar. It is a border town that if you look at the map, its location is fascinating. It's technically half of the town is over the international border between Israel and Lebanon. So after three long hours of travel from Jerusalem, we have made it to the village of Ghadjar. This is really exciting because it used to be not so long ago, the last time we tried to come here about a year ago, there is an IDF checkpoint, an Israeli Army checkpoint at the entrance to the village. It's still there. But now that Israel has opened access to civilians, you can get further. Now what's also interesting is that just a little bit past that IDF checkpoint and pretty much where I'm standing, all the stuff you can see in the background here. So for those interested in Israeli borders and yes, border spotting is the thing. You can get right up to borders between Israel and its neighbouring countries for reasons of security. Typically those areas that do really, really about the border are called closed military zones and only the IDF can go in them. So this is typically what it looks like. The fences all have these numbers on them, barbed wire, stuff that tells you you're approaching a border. So where I am recording this video from is just at the entrance to the village. The blue line, I'm going to pinpoint exactly at what point we cross the blue line. It's about probably 50 metres up that way. This road actually crosses the blue line. And the blue line is effectively Israel's de facto border with Lebanon. The countries are technically at war. So it's not a border that's been agreed upon, but that serves as the international border. So where we are at the moment is the entrance to Rajar. People are coming in and out of the village. It's an al-await village. We're going to check out a little bit of stuff that is in on the Israeli side. We're going to check a little bit of stuff that technically is in Lebanon. One more thing I will say, there's signage up from the Israeli army, from the IDF asking for visitors to treat the local residents with respect. So I'm trying my best, despite holding a microphone, not to make too much of a spectacle of this. But if we can get anyone to talk about their life in the village, that will be amazing as well. So where I am currently standing at this point in Rajar and this road, according to Google Maps, I'm standing almost exactly on the blue line. The site of the village this way was the Clalit Health Clinic. One of the health funds is located on the Israeli side. And if I swing around this way and I start walking backwards for about 10 meters trying not to get in the way of traffic, I'm now crossing into Lebanon. And on the Lebanese side, the blue line. As you can see on Google Maps, I'm now over the blue line and in Lebanon. So clearly the blue line itself, the de facto border, is not demarcated in Rajar, but you can pass between the two sides freely. And that's what makes this, for border spotters, one of the most interesting villages in the world. So I'm recording this video on the lookout point in Rajar. And what you can see behind me, all those houses in the distance over here and also over in this direction, located across a riverbed, only probably about 100 meters away, those houses are in Lebanon. Now, I was wondering from my limited abilities to research this place on Google Maps, how Israel could have taken control over the entirety of this village while half of it being a Lebanese territory. The answer is that there is a sort of, I guess de facto border fence running around this village which is physically cutting it off from the rest of South Lebanon, which otherwise would just be somewhere you could walk into from any point here and it's crazy to think about. The history of Rajar is fascinating, like many places in this part of the world, it's changed hands many times over the course of history. Most interestingly perhaps since 1967, in 1967 Israel conquered the Golan Heights or according to lots of international community members, occupied the Golan Heights and when that happened, the village of Rajar was for two months effectively in Oman's land. It was used to be part of Syria, now integrated into Israel. The villagers petitioned the Israeli governor of the Golan, the newly appointed Israeli governor in order to be integrated into Israel, even those Alawites, they feel their identity is more towards Syria. Now, of course, given the blue line demarcation, the fact that this village was halfway over the line was problematic and has been the subject of a lot of disputes since. Also worth pointing out, you can see behind me as well in the background, a couple of UN stations and the UN blue line, which is the de facto international border between Israel and Lebanon is actually marked out with these kind of little blue cylinders and the exact course of the blue line itself is a matter of dispute. There's a UN mission, UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. A major part of their mission is coordinating the exact route of the border between the Lebanese armed forces, the LAF and the Israeli army, the IDF. So we plan to interview residents of Rajar about their identity and that go drinking in the blue line restaurant has kind of failed on both counts because the blue line restaurant, which is a restaurant on the Lebanese side, is not open currently and there's literally almost no one here. It's kind of eerie. We've seen like a few kids playing on the streets, but that's pretty much it. All the houses around where we're traveling here, they just look empty. So it's kind of a strange place. Didn't get to do quite the investigative piece of documentary work that I was hoping for here. But nevertheless, if you are here and you want to check out Rajar, besides all the border stuff, I think it's a really fascinating place and perhaps you'll have better luck than me in solving the mystery of this village.