Lebanon Files Complaints to Un Security Council Over Israeli Attacks

A protest against the Zionist state’s actions in the Middle East, 2024. X/ @TorahJudaism

October 15, 2024 Hour: 5:29 am

Since October 2023, the Zionist army has killed 2,309 Lebanese and injured 10,782 people.

On Monday, the Lebanese Mission to the United Nations filed two complaints to the United Nations Security Council against Israel regarding the repeated attacks on the positions of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the impact of Israeli actions on the Lebanese education sector.

The first complaint considered Israel’s request for the peacekeeping forces to evacuate their positions 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 “a firm and strict stance” be taken against these 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.”

Five UNIFIL personnel were injured in recent days during battles between the Israeli army and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where UNIFIL accused the Israeli army of “repeatedly” firing at its positions.

"We have strikes going on through the night.

We have people burnt alive in their tents.

We have people being killed while they sleep.

And then, in the morning, children being vaccinated.

Well, what's the fate of these children tomorrow?"

– Louise Wateridge, @UNRWA, on #Gaza pic.twitter.com/tXhNEMjcTl
— United Nations Geneva (@UNGeneva) October 14, 2024

The Lebanese Mission to the United Nations also submitted a second complaint regarding the Israeli attacks’ impact on the education sector in Lebanon. In this complaint, Lebanon urged UN Security Council to intervene urgently and effectively to 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.”

Since late September, the Israeli army has launched intensive attacks on Lebanon. According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, the death toll from the Israeli attacks on Lebanon since October 2023 has reached 2,309, with injuries totaling 10,782.