Israeli Gunboat Crosses into Lebanese Waters near Naqoura
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
An Israeli gunboat entered the Lebanese waters on Tuesday, triggering the army's forces to take the required defensive measures.
"An Israeli gunboat entered the Lebanese waters between 11:35 and 11:45 this morning near (the southern town of) al-Naqoura,” a communique released by the Amry Command said.
The statement noted that the marine forces “took the necessary defensive procedures.”
“The army's procedures were undertaken in cooperation with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.”
Israel's violations of Lebanese sovereignty are frequent, with warplanes often crossing into the country's airspace, some of which at low altitudes.
President Michel Suleiman had tasked on June 2 Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour with filing an urgent complaint with the U.N. over the Israeli warplanes crossing into Lebanese airspace.
These activities are considered a violation of the U.N. Security Council resolution 1701, which allowed for a ceasefire that ended Israel's war with Hizbullah in 2006.
11 June 2013, 22:20
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Welcome to Lebanon.... Persians and Syrians are already here. Why not you!
11 June 2013, 22:53
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If it was a Syrian battleship shooting missiles at coastal towns, we'd label it as... oh right, we'd not label it at all, actually.
12 June 2013, 03:32
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@saturn: if my memory serves me correctly Jewish Warplanes and Boats violating our space do not shoot blindly at Lebanese citizens with no reason unlike the Syrian gunboats as in Minyeh and Tripoli that killed two Lebanese fishermen in one case and kidnapped a family of three fishermen in another case after the 17yrs old was shot dead and Suleiman phoned Assad to release his two uncles.
12 June 2013, 04:10
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Those expecting USS Cole to show up were surprised to see this Israeli gunboat, which actually is the destroyer USS Joseph Lieberman in disguise. Finally, rescue has arrived, warriors.
12 June 2013, 08:27
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cross all U want since we have no borders and Hizbo is resisting the Syrians in Syria! what a whore country we live in!
12 June 2013, 08:31
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its ok the weather was really nice yesterday :) i think they needed to try our SUN and feel the HEAT looool..or maybe they r checking on the gas they r stealing ...while our politicians r getting paid for it
12 June 2013, 08:48
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Sorry Nasrallah is busy killing muslim-jews in Syria, jew-jews are allowed to enter for now!
12 June 2013, 09:05
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Gas Israel is stealing? No, Israel is just more advanced than you and was able to extract it, within its own economic zone, first. So your upset. Your loss. Your excuses of stealing will not help your country progress....no self-accountability among the multitudes of this region.
