Lebanon brings complaints to UN Security Council against Israeli aggression

The Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations has filed two complaints with the Security Council against Israel's repeated attacks on the positions of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, and the impact of attacks on the Lebanese education sector.

The first complaint concerns Israel's order to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to evacuate its troops from the area, describing it as “illegitimate.”

Lebanon stressed that “the Israeli attacks on UNIFIL are a dangerous precedent and a flagrant violation of international law and Security Council Resolution 1701.”

In the complaint, Lebanon demanded that “a firm and strict stance” be taken against such attacks, stressing “the need to hold Israel accountable for these violations and prevent it from repeating them, to avoid casualties among UNIFIL forces, and to ensure UNIFIL's ability to continue fulfilling its obligations stipulated in its mandate.”

Israeli tanks on Sunday forced entry into one of UNIFIL's positions, latest in a series of violations and attacks by the Israeli military, which injured several troops of the 10,000-strong peacekeeping mission..

Last week, four UNIFIL peacekeepers were injured by Israeli army's shelling on their posts in southern Lebanon.

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The Lebanese Mission to the United Nations also submitted a second complaint concerning the impact of Israeli assaults on the education sector in Lebanon.

In the complaint, Lebanon urged the UN Security Council to intervene immediately and effectively stop the ongoing Israeli “aggression” on its territory, which it said had deprived nearly 1.4 million students of their basic right to education.

The complaint called on the international community to “move immediately to ensure the cessation of aggression and the protection of the right to education as a fundamental pillar for building a stable and secure future for the country.”

In recent weeks, Israel has mounted its bloody aerial assaults on Lebanon, causing the displacement of at least 1.3 million people, more than a fifth of the country’s population.

At least 2,309 people have been killed and 10,782 others injured in Israeli air raids on Lebanon since early October 2023, according to Lebanon’s Public Health Ministry.

Over the same period, the Zionist regime has been waging a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 42,289 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 98,684 others. 

Hezbollah has launched retaliatory attacks on Israeli targets and vowed to keep fighting until the regime ends its aggression against Lebanon and Gaza.

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