Vandals have smashed gravestones at a Maronite Christian cemetery in a village near Israel's **rthern border with Leba**n, Israeli police said on Wednesday. Kufr Bir'im is derelict Palestinian Arab village whose inhabitants were evicted by the Israeli army in 1948, six months after Israel was established, and never allowed to return. The village was almost totally razed by the Israeli army in 1953. There are some 11,400 Maronite Catholics living in Israel.