Lebanon lodges complaint at UN Security Council over Israeli aggression

Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has filed a complaint with the UN Security Council (UNSC) and UN Secretary-General António Guterres against Israel after the regime said it had struck targets belonging to the Palestinian resistance group Hamas in southern Lebanon.

According to Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA), Bou Habib held a meeting with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Saturday, after which he instructed the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York to submit an official complaint to the UN Security Council and the UN chief regarding the impact of the Israeli bombing and deliberate aggression at Friday dawn in areas in southern Lebanon.

The top Lebanese diplomat called the Israeli aggression a flagrant violation of Lebanon's sovereignty and a deliberate breach of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against Lebanon in 2006, calls on Tel Aviv to respect Beirut's sovereignty and territorial integrity. 

The Israeli bombardment in the early hours of Friday followed a spate of rocket launches from southern Lebanon as tensions soared after Israeli forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in al-Quds twice this week, and violently attacked Palestinian worshippers marking the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Hours earlier, there were explosions in the besieged Gaza Strip after the Israeli military launched air raids on several targets in the coastal enclave.

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