Lebanon to file complaint at UN Security Council over Israeli aggression
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon will lodge an official complaint with the UN Security Council over the deliberate Israeli aggression that took place early Friday, according to a Foreign Ministry statement.
The ministry said Israel had violated Lebanon’s sovereignty by bombing areas in southern Lebanon.
“Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Abdallah Bou Habib instructed the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York to submit an official complaint to the UN Security Council regarding the impact of the Israeli bombing and deliberate aggression in areas in southern Lebanon,” said the ministry.
It called the Israeli aggression “a flagrant violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and a flagrant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.”
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 calls for a full cessation of hostilities and Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
Early Friday, the Israeli military launched airstrikes in Lebanon hours after it struck the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, it said it struck targets belonging to the Palestinian resistance group Hamas in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army claimed earlier on Thursday that at least 30 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel.
These developments came after Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem and forcibly removed Palestinian worshippers for two nights in a row in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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