Bassil Moves to Inform Security Council of 1,168 Israeli Violations in 2015
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on Tuesday instructed Lebanon's diplomats to inform the U.N. Security Council of Israel's violations of Lebanese sovereignty in the year 2015, state-run National News Agency reported.
The report that will be submitted includes details about 1,168 land, aerial and maritime breaches of Lebanese sovereignty.
On Monday, Israel fired dozens of shells into south Lebanon as its warplanes and reconnaissance drones staged intensive overflights over the country, in the wake of a Hizbullah bomb attack in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
Hizbullah's operation was in response to an apparent Israeli air raid in Syria that killed the party's top operative Samir al-Quntar.
Lebanon regularly files U.N. complaints over Israel's near-daily land, air, and sea violations of Lebanese sovereignty.
Israel occupied much of southern Lebanon for 22 years between 1978 and 2000 and its invading army reached the capital Beirut in 1982.
It fought a devastating war with Hizbullah in 2006 in which more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Lebanon.
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