Beirut-Sana
Lebanese President General Michel Aoun affirmed that the recent Israeli aggression against southern Lebanon is a flagrant and dangerous violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and a direct threat to the security and stability of the south.
The Lebanese presidency stated in a statement today that Aoun was briefed by the army leadership on the results of the investigations related to what happened and the measures to be taken in this regard, considering that submitting a complaint to the United Nations is an indispensable step to deter (Israel) from continuing its attacks on Lebanon.
Aoun said, "Israel's use of its air force to target Lebanese villages is the first of its kind since 2006 and indicates the presence of escalatory aggressive intentions that coincide with the continuous threats against Lebanon and its sovereignty."
For his part, the caretaker prime minister, Hassan Diab, asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs to instruct Lebanon's delegate to the United Nations to submit a complaint to the Security Council regarding the Israeli aggression.
Diab said in a statement that "the Israeli enemy carried out with its artillery first and its warplanes secondly, an explicit aggression against Lebanese sovereignty and publicly admitted this flagrant violation of Resolution 1701, citing the fall of suspicious missiles and timing on the north of occupied Palestine from the Lebanese territories, and no party adopted it."
Diab stressed that 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 Lebanese airspace to attack Syria.
Diab called on the United Nations and the Security Council to deter the occupation entity to stop its repeated violations of Lebanese sovereignty, because these violations are now threatening Resolution 1701 and the stability that has existed since 2006.
