By Rym Ghazal

BEIRUT: A Lebanese soldier died in hospital on Friday, two days after being wounded in clashes between the army and pro-Syrian Palestinian gunmen near the Syrian border.

In the latest development since the violence, officials confirmed that trucks carrying arms and members of the Fatah al-Intifada had in fact entered Lebanon from Syria, after initially denying such reports.

Corporal Mustafa Medlej, 21, died in hospital in the southeastern village of Jeb Janine after sustaining two head wounds during clashes on Wednesday between Lebanese troops and Fatah al-Intifada militants in the mountainous area of Halwa-Yanta, located about three kilometers from the Syrian border, according to an army statement.

"There was a redeployment of men and arms in the posts held by Fatah al-Intifada on Wednesday and Thursday night," the statement said.

"Several of the Palestinian fighters involved in the shooting of Lebanese soldiers have been identified and they will be arrested immediately and prosecuted by the Lebanese judiciary," he added.

Security sources told The Daily Star that the army had asked that three members of Fatah al-Intifada be handed over, not two as had been previously reported. The three are said to be responsible for starting the incident Wednesday.

Initial reports said Fatah al-Intifada had received late Wednesday from Syria some 50 new members and five trucks laden with arms and ammunition to reinforce their positions.

اوقاف العائلة على ذاتها

١- كنيسة سيدة عجلتون: سنة ١٦٤١ ابتنى ابو نوفل كنيسة وعين لها كاهناً يُقيم القداس فيها دائماً

   "دويهي" وهذه الكنيسة هي السيدة في عجلتون (المقاطعة الكسروانية ص ٧٣) وفي الجامع المفصل 

    ص ٤٤٦ والمطران دريان في معرض كلامهما عن البطريرك طوبيا الخازن يقولان انه: دفن في

    كنيسة السيدة المختصة بعائلته.

٢-  مار الياس بلونه: سنة ١٦٦٤ جدد الشيخ نمر ابن ابي نصيف الخازن دير مار الياس بلونه.

٣- مار الياس غوسطا:  سنة ١٦٨٠ بدأ الشيخ ابو قنصوه بناء دار عظيمة في غوسطا تلاصقها من

    الجهة القبلية كنيسة على اسم مار الياس الحي وتم بناؤها ١٦٨٩ (المقاطعة الكسروانية).

٤-  مار مارون كفردبيان: في سنة ١٦٩١ في ٢٨ ايلول كان مقتل زعرور وقيل انه بسبب زعرور

     وعصابته اضطر اولاد ابي نوفل ان يبنوا البرج المشهور في مزرعة  كفردبيان، وجعلوه طابقين،

     وما تزال في جدرانه المرامي التي كانوا يطلقون منها الرصاص (المقاطعة الكسروانية ص ٩٠).

٥- مار انطونيوس بقعاته: انشأه البطريرك طوبيا الخازن اذا كان بعد مطراناً قبل انعقاد المجمع اللبناني،

    لان السمعاني في المجمع المذكور نقل الرهبان منه (الجامع المفصل ٥٠٩).

By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Writer

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The U.N. Security Council's call for Syria to establish diplomatic ties with Lebanon will likely only stiffen Damascus' resolve against a move it has steadfastly rejected for six decades. At least three factors are at work to discourage Syria from heeding the U.N. resolution, aimed at restoring Lebanon's sovereignty following Syria's 29-year occupation of its smaller neighbor.

Uppermost among them, the resolution cannot be enforced. That makes it a piece of "propaganda with no political value that could provoke the Syrians and undermine resumption of relations," said Sateh Noureddine, managing editor of a pro-Syrian Lebanese newspaper, As-Safir.

by Nayla Razzouk
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon has welcomed a UN Security Council resolution calling on former powerbroker Syria to establish formal diplomatic relations with Beirut and demarcate their border, which prompted Damascus to claim interference it its affairs. Meanwhile, in a sign of ongoing strife between the two neighbors, pro-Syrian Palestinian militants and Lebanese army troops each beefed up their presence near the border following clashes that wounded two people a day earlier.

"The resolution is good because it encourages both brotherly countries to cooperate in order to implement two issues that were adopted by the national dialogue," or ongoing reconciliation talks among Lebanese leaders, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said Thursday.

Those issues are the establishment of formal diplomatic relations and the demarcation of the border, Siniora told An-Nahar newspaper. "Lebanon, as a state, did not have a say in it (the resolution), and we tried to soften the terms that were used and we succeeded in softening the terms," Siniora added.