Acting Lebanese Foreign Affairs and Migration Minister Abdallah Bou Habib instructed his country's mission to the UN to file a complaint with the Security Council over Israeli military rocket attacks on the southern part of the republic.
"Following consultations with Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Foreign Affairs and Migration Minister Abdallah Bou Habib instructed Lebanon's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York to file a formal complaint with the UN Security Council over Israel's deliberate attack on southern Lebanon this morning," the republic's foreign ministry said in a statement posted on its Twitter page Friday.
It is noted that Israel's shelling of southern Lebanon is "a blatant violation of Lebanese sovereignty and a flagrant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701." The Israeli attack "threatens the stability established in the south of the country," the foreign ministry added.
On Thursday, the Israel defense press office reported at least 34 rockets launched from Lebanese territory toward the Jewish state, 25 of which were intercepted by the air defense system. It was also reported later that mortar shells were launched from Lebanon towards the town of Metula in the north of Israel. The Israeli military responded by shelling southern Lebanese neighborhoods, Al Mayadeen TV reported. According to the Israeli Kan Radio station, on Friday night the military attacked three Palestinian Hamas sites in southern Lebanon and more than 10 military targets of the radical organization in the Gaza Strip.
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