President Joseph Aoun has asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Youssef Raji, to instruct Lebanon’s permanent mission to the United Nations to file an urgent complaint with the Security Council against Israel, which has begun building a concrete wall along Lebanon’s southern border that extends beyond the Blue Line drawn after the Israeli withdrawal in 2000.
Aoun also requested that the complaint be accompanied by UN reports refuting Israel’s denial of the construction. These reports confirm that the concrete barrier erected by the Israeli army prevents residents of the South from accessing more than 4,000 square meters of Lebanese land.
International reports further state that UNIFIL has notified Israel of its obligation to dismantle the wall, stressing that Israel’s continued presence on Lebanese territory and the construction works it is carrying out there constitute a violation of Security Council Resolution 1701, as well as an infringement of Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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