Caretaker Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, asked Foreign Minister Zeina Akar to “instruct Lebanon’s delegate to the United Nations, Ambassador Amal Mudallali, to submit an urgent complaint to the UN Security Council regarding the Israeli aggression against Lebanon.”

Diab issued a statement in which he said: “The Israeli enemy, with its artillery first and its warplanes second, carried out an explicit aggression against the Lebanese sovereignty, and publicly admitted this flagrant violation of Resolution 1701, suspiciously claiming the fall of missiles on the northern parts of occupied Palestine, fired from the Lebanese territories, when no party in Lebanon has claimed such an attack. This new and dangerous aggression constitutes a major threat to calm on Lebanon’s southern borders, after a series of Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty and the use of the Lebanese airspace to attack Syria.”

“I call on the United Nations and the Security Council to deter Israel and force it to stop its repeated violations of Lebanese sovereignty, as such violations tamper with Resolution 1701 and the stability that has existed since 2006,” he concluded.

Source: NNA