Lebanon files complaint with UN Security Council against Israeli ceasefire violations
Lebanon’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council, through its Permanent Mission in New York, against Israel's repeated violations of the ceasefire and of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.
The National News agency said Tuesday that Lebanon has cited ground and air attacks, the destruction of homes and residential neighborhoods in Lebanon, and the kidnapping and targeting of Lebanese citizens, journalists and Lebanese army members.
The complaint also outlined the attacks on civilians who tried to return to their border villages after a 60-day deadline for Israeli forces to withdraw from south Lebanon ended.
Under a November ceasefire deal, the Lebanese military was to deploy in the south alongside United Nations peacekeepers as the Israeli army withdrew over a 60-day period. The Israeli military missed the 60-day deadline to withdraw, killing 24 people and wounding at least 124 others as residents tried to return to their southern border villages. The deadline was later extended to February 18.
Lebanon urged the U.N. Security Council, and France and the U.S. - which brokered the ceasefire and formed a committee to oversee its implementation - to take a "firm and clear stance" in order to put an end to the Israeli violations.
Source: Naharnet
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