Lebanon to File Complaint against Israel over Naameh Attack
President Michel Suleiman tasked on Friday caretaker FM Adnan Mansour to file an urgent complaint to the U.N. Security Council against Israeli attack on Naameh.
“The border violations must be resolved by UNIFIL's (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) investigation committee and not by aggression or violating the sovereignty (of Lebanon),” Suleiman said.
Earlier on Friday, the Israeli air force "targeted a terror site located between Beirut and Sidon in response to a barrage of four rockets launched at northern Israel yesterday (Thursday)," the military said.
For his part, Mansour denounced the attack in comments to Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5), confirming that the Lebanese state would file a complaint to the U.N.
"Any violation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 should be dealt with through the UNIFIL and by a direct attack on Lebanon's sovereignty,” Mansour said in a statement.
The attack comes hours after a different organization said it fired four rockets at the Jewish state from Lebanon.
The state-run National News Agency said the target was a position of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), a hardline but secular militant group which said it had nothing to do with Thursday's rocket fire.
The Lebanese army confirmed the attack.
The salvo of four rockets, which caused damage but no casualties, was claimed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades -- an al-Qaida-linked group which claimed similar rocket fire on Israel in 2009 and 2011.
In its Friday statement, the Israeli army again said it "holds the Lebanese government accountable for the attack".
On Thursday, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman described the rocket fire as a violation of U.N. resolutions and of Lebanese sovereignty, and urged security forces to hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
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