The departure and arrival screens at Beirut Airport were subjected to a cyber attack early this year (Anatolia)
Lebanon accused Israel of violating its sovereignty and disrupting navigation systems in the airspace of Beirut Airport since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip, and announced the submission of an urgent complaint to the UN Security Council.
The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced - in a statement yesterday, Friday - that it had instructed the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York to submit this complaint to the Security Council, and said that it came as a continuation of the campaign to document Israeli breaches and violations, and a continuation of the series of complaints previously filed.
The statement denounced these Israeli actions, which are characterized by “described recklessness” and “their dangerous consequences on the safety of civil aviation, as well as on the lives of thousands of civilian passengers every day, in flagrant violation of the laws and regulations sponsored by the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Air Transport Association, as well as the signed International Civil Aviation Convention.” In the American city of Chicago in 1944, in addition to international humanitarian law.
Last Tuesday, the Lebanese Minister of Works and Transport, Ali Hamiya, revealed, during a government meeting, that there was interference in the airspace at the airport in Beirut, warning of “the danger of this to all local and international air transport companies.”
Last January, the departure and arrival screens at Beirut Airport were subjected to a cyber attack, and local media circulated footage showing an anti-Hezbollah message on the screens in the airport building.
There has been an almost daily exchange of bombardment on the Lebanese-Israeli border between the Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian factions on the one hand, and the Israeli army on the other, since the outbreak of the Israeli aggression on Gaza on the seventh of last October, which led to deaths and injuries on both sides of the border.
Source: Agencies