Lebanon’s Amnesty Law Opens Door for Lebanese in Israel to Return

Lebanon’s amnesty bargain leaves justice behind

Beirut opens its prison doors while leaving the machinery of injustice untouched.

Lebanon’s Amnesty Law Opens Door for Lebanese in Israel to Return

By Tony Boulos AI-generated image featuring the Israeli and Lebanese flags. Lebanon’s newly adopted general amnesty law does more than address Islamist detainees, drug-related offenses and thousands of prisoners affected by lengthy sentences. It also reopens one of the country’s most politically sensitive and long-neglected files: the fate of Lebanese citizens who fled to Israel following Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000. Un…