 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here bringing you another video from another international border in Israel. If you didn't think borders were interesting before, perhaps subscribing to me on YouTube, I hope I'm slowly changing your mind. Borders are the fault lines between countries, the tectonic plates, and in this part of the world in Israel they're not just separating between countries, they're separating between completely different ideologies. And in this case, the border here I'm in front of, which is the Israel-Lebanon border, or technically the blue line I'll get into that, is the dividing line between two countries which are officially at a state of war. So where I am today, specifically according to Google Maps, there is 87 meters between where I'm standing in Lebanon. That village you can see behind me in the distance is the village of Khvar Kila, which is immediately a butting Matula. And we just visited a really interesting memorial here, it's called the Andernet Gederhatov. Gederhatov in Hebrew means the good fence. And basically this is a memorial to Maronite Christian fighters who were fighting effectively alongside or on behalf of the IDF between 1982 and 2000 during Israel's protracted operation to ensure a security buffer in southern Lebanon. Gederhatov as I said in Hebrew technically just means good fence, but it's a nickname for the official border crossing was called the Fatima Gate. And this was basically where the Fatima Gate was, as I mentioned, this is about 80 meters before the border and those houses, there's one here about 50 meters away, you can see a mosque. These are all in Khvar Kila. Khvar Kila, just to emphasize how close all this stuff is, is a Hezbollah stronghold with the Hezbollah army base, at least 20 arms depots. And when the IDF uncovered a couple of years ago attempts by Hezbollah to dig under the border in order to plan their very, very elaborate operation to have a land invasion into these border towns in Israel, one of the tunnels was found and entering Israel very, very close to where I'm standing. So the border was called Fatima Gate because Israel from 1977 until 2000 had a de facto policy, a soft policy of allowing Marini Christians to come into Israel for various good things. That's why it was called the good fence to kind of, I guess, conjure up the idea of goodwill. A 1.1 third of the patients in the nearest hospital here in the ophthalmology department were Lebanese people. They used to be able to come through the border freely in order to work in Israel, in order to access medical treatment in Israel, and then return back into Lebanon. And also I mentioned the border briefly, I'm going to just mention the technicalities, people get very fussy about this word. For me a border is a dividing line between two countries but technically an international border to be worthy of the term has to sort of be agreed between the two countries on the other side of the border. So what you have between Israel and Lebanon is more like a demarcation line based on where Israel withdrew to following its withdrawal out of Lebanon. And now an international organization, UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Forest in Lebanon are responsible for sort of enforcing the separation along this, what's called the blue line, and is literally marked out by blue cylinders. As I mentioned in my last video at night time his Bilal are now using their latest technique is using little laser pointers to attempt to blind drivers on the Israeli side of the border, put lasers into their house, and potentially cause it. It sounds like a trivial thing but actually has the potential to cause lifelong eyesight damage, including potentially all the way up to blindness. So this is Kfar Kila. On the other side here is the beautiful town of Matula, which as I mentioned is the northernmost community in Israel surrounded on all sides by Lebanon. And over there in the backdrop again is the fantastic beautiful view, which I'll include a few seconds of in this video, of the Hormone covered in snow. Israel's only a sea resort, a ski resort, and also shared with Syria. Hageda Hatov was sort of the nickname for it. It was officially called Shafatima. It was an exception to the otherwise rule that there really is no border crossings, regular border crossings between Israel and Lebanon. And in the year 2000 when Israel concluded its withdrawal from South Lebanon and UNIFIL the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, which whose mandate is to create a buffer in this part of Lebanon Israel whereby the IDF doesn't come north of the blue line. His Bilal doesn't operate to the south of the blue line, although their success in that mandate really really should be drawn into question after a number of tunnels been operated by his Bilal were discovered literally where they're supposed to be. But this is exactly where we are and how close the two countries are at this point. And as I mentioned, although it's a beautiful country site here, the Hormone, the lovely village of Matula, this is very much a border with constant activity going on. I hope this video taken less than 100 meters from the Israel-Abanan border. The village of Kvarkila, abutting the Israeli border community of Matula has been interesting perhaps a little bit of my interest in borders, has rubbed off on you. 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