SOUTHERN LRANON.-Rashaya Fuqhar. once a prosperous little village of 2.000 Christian Arabs. is now a near ghost town. Known tor its simple but striking brown and tan pottery. its kilns are now cold. In the past year. five villagers have been killed and over 30 wounded by Israel air and artillery bombardment. The pottery factory has been smashed by bombs. Scores of others have been damaged by shelling. Hundreds of the villages residents are now refugees. having fled to the slums of Sidon and Beirut to the north. Only 100 residents remain. A few of the villagers still farm. but most of them are afraid to bzcause the fields are strafed.
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