Netanyahu is rallying ambassadors on the borders of Lebanon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accompanied diplomats accredited to the occupation on Thursday to the border with Lebanon to watch the tunnels he said Hezbollah dug, calling for sanctions on the party.

Israel said on Tuesday it had spotted tunnels for Hezbollah to infiltrate its territory from Lebanon and launched an operation to destroy them, dubbed "the North Shield," but gave no evidence, according to Lebanese officials.

Netanyahu told the foreign ambassadors that Operation North Shield is still in its initial stages, "but at the end of it will remove the weapons of the tunnels, which Hezbollah has made great efforts to develop," as he put it.

Earlier, in a telephone conversation with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterich, Netanyahu asked the United Nations to condemn the "violation of Israeli sovereignty" by Hezbollah, according to the account of the Prime Minister's Office on Twitter.

The Israeli army confirmed that one of the tunnels monitored from a house in the town of Karkla and extends 40 meters inside Israel, adding that it works to "destroy".

The Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said yesterday that the army of his country is on the safety of the border with Israel in accordance with the requirements of international legitimacy.

He stressed in a statement that the Lebanese army is responsible for ensuring the safety of the border and extending the legitimate authority over all borders in accordance with the requirements of international legitimacy, in accordance with resolution 1701 of 2006 calling for a cessation of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.

Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri said yesterday that Israel did not provide evidence during a meeting with UN peacekeepers on Wednesday that there were tunnels to attack them on the border between the two countries.

During the meeting, which was scheduled before Israel began its ongoing operation, the parties agreed that UNIFIL would send a technical team to Israel on Thursday "to ascertain the facts."

The Lebanese National Information Agency revealed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is preparing a complaint to the UN Security Council on "repeated Israeli violations".