Lebanon submitted an official complaint to the United Nations condemning the Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace and the assault on its sovereignty, the day after the Israeli warplanes carried out a raid last night against targets in Syria from that airspace.
According to a statement by the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, Friday, Lebanon sent the complaint through its representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Amal Mudallali, regarding the Israeli violations, and calls for the necessity of deterring Israel from committing these violations again.
The Lebanese caretaker prime minister, Hassan Diab, had asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to file a complaint against what he described as Israel's violation of Lebanon's sovereignty and endangering the safety of civil aviation.
Demanding quick action
For his part, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said that the Israeli warplanes' penetration of Lebanese airspace is a violation of Resolution 1701 and a new violation of the country's sovereignty.
During his meeting with the Special Coordinator of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Lebanon Joanna Runica, Aoun called on the international organization to move quickly to ensure that these violations are not repeated.
Late yesterday evening, Thursday, the Syrian News Agency (SANA) said that the air defenses had confronted hostile targets in the sky of Damascus yesterday, while the German news agency quoted a Syrian military source as saying that the Israeli aircraft launched an air aggression with missiles from southeast Beirut targeting some Points in the vicinity of the cities of Damascus and Homs.
"SANA" broadcast videos showing what it said was the process of confronting what it described as the hostile targets.
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Lebanon reported that Israeli military planes flew at a low altitude over Mount Lebanon, while Israel remained silent about the matter.
In August 2006, the Security Council adopted Resolution 1701 to stop all hostilities between Lebanon and Israel, following a 33-day war between the two sides.
Recently, the Israeli warplanes intensified targeting military sites in Syria, using the Lebanese airspace, in addition to ground and sea violations.
Israel occupies part of the Lebanese lands, namely the Shebaa Farms and the Kafr Shuba hills, and a UN Security Council resolution was issued in 1978 stipulating its withdrawal from all Lebanese lands, but it was not implemented.