Lebanon to file a complaint with UN against Israeli attack

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UN security council syria votePresident Michel Suleiman asked caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour to file an urgent complaint against Israeli attack on Na’ameh to the U.N. Security Council.

This comes after the Israel’s air force bombed a militant target in Lebanon on Friday in retaliation for a cross-border rocket salvo on Thursday.

An Israeli military source said the “terror site” bombed was near Na’ameh, between Beirut and Sidon, but did not immediately provide further details. Israel said Thursday’s rockets, which caused damage but no casualties, were fired by Islamic radicals.

“The pilots reported direct hits to the target.”

Lebanon’ s National News Agency said the target was a position of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), a hardline but secular militant group which claimed it had nothing to do with Thursday’s rocket fire.

A communique issued later by the Lebanese army command said that an “Israeli warplane violated at 4:00 a.m. Lebanon’s airspace and targeted an area in Na’ameh that contained one of the Palestinian organizations .”

“The rocket attack caused a five meter crater but didn’t cause any human losses or material damage,” the statement pointed out.

The army took the necessary defense measures.

The salvo of four rockets, which caused damage but no casualties, was claimed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades — an al-Qaida-linked group which claimed similar rocket fire on Israel in 2009 and 2011.

Israeli army spokesman Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai said on Thursday that the rockets were “launched by the global jihad terror organization” — an apparent reference to al-Qaida.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened retaliation. “Anyone who harms us, or tries to harm us, should know — we will strike them,” he said on Thursday.

Two of the four rockets fired from Lebanon on Thursday hit populated areas of northern Israel, causing damage but no casualties.

One struck in Gesher Haziv, a kibbutz east of the Mediterranean coastal town of Nahariya, Agence France Presse correspondents reported. Another hit Shavie Zion, a village between Nahariya and Acre, further south, Israeli media said.

A third rocket was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, the army said. The fourth apparently struck outside Israel.

Thursday’s attack was the first of its kind since November 2011, when the same Palestinian jihadist group fired a volley of rockets from southern Lebanon at Israel. That fire too provoked retaliation by the Israeli military.

Defense sources said that the PFLP-GC base hit was in the Naameh valley.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine- General Command ( PFLP-GC) has a base in Naa’meh valley and has a number of heavily fortified positions in Lebanon.

Headed by Ahmed Jibril, PFLP-GC is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and others in the West. It is an extremist Palestinian militant organization that is based in Syria and closely associated with the Syrian regime.

PFLP-GC spokesman Ramez Mustapha denied any link between his group and the rockets fired at Israel on Thursday.

In its Friday statement, the Israeli army again said it “holds the Lebanese government accountable for the attack”.

President Suleiman on Thursday condemned the firing of rockets from Lebanon at Israel as a “violation of Resolution 1701 and Lebanese sovereignty.”

The president called on the relevant authorities to “unveil the perpetrators and refer them to the judiciary.”

Also caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the rocket attack was a “clear attempt to disrupt the security situation in the South and turn Lebanon again into an arena for settling scores and sending messages in one direction or another.”

“The Lebanese government condemns the incident and considers it a blatant violation of UNSCR 1701,” Mikati added.

Similarly Caretaker FM Mansour told al-Mayadeen TV: “Lebanon does not bear the responsibility for the rocket attack because it does not support the groups that perpetrated it.”

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20 responses to “Lebanon to file a complaint with UN against Israeli attack”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Tit for Tat …. Dirt suffered on both ‘sides’. And yes, the UN should know about it all.
    Of course, the escalation of nerve-damage, added to by various bombings here and there, is simply going to have mouths salivating greatly for a while, and spewing the never-ending rhetoric.
    The UN is used to that too.

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Tit for Tat …. Dirt suffered on both ‘sides’. And yes, the UN should know about it.

  3. JS_Bach Avatar

    File a complaint about what exactly?! You fired rockets, you got a response. Simple. The UN complaint should be filed against the factions that continue to fire rockets, not cry me a river about the response when it happens.

    1. Hannibal Avatar

      LOL Are you against the resistance? How could you?
      Besides most likely those are Palestinians operating in Lebanon with Syrian blessing. I guess the retaliation makes more sense to be at Syria and at the long necked weird ears hyena in Damascus.

      1. That’s correct the Liberation of Palestine bla bla bla group is a puppet of Assad.
        The question however, is why the Lebanese government never complains about the Syrian air force bombing civilians on Lebanese soil? its no wonder the SNC calls them a ‘Hezbollah government’ …

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          The basic answer, Cookie, is that getting a war between 18 sects and several gangs (at that time more than now, perhaps, maybe…) to STOP 25 years of crap, and to try to rebuild a country – even with ‘Syrians In Charge For Protection’, they had to come up with the ‘equal shares’ bit, with also 2 ‘tops’ in place.
          It ‘calmed the scene’.
          But the idea that ‘Peace’ could take precedence over some brains by creating a false democracy never quite took hold. Sure, most want that, but here it’s only on their own gang’s terms. Not ‘FOR’ all living inside the squishy borders.
          And after they blew up Hariri, 6 years of ‘good’ got blown away too – although it prompted a passionate unarmed response of millions to get Syria out of the damn place – and their army (only) left. But Assad had left a few ‘monks’ behind. And some gang members. And ‘the people’ never saw that, or read the news.
          Some TRY. A vote takes place. And then … what?? No government.
          At every stage of development, ‘The People’ defeated themselves – except for the one moment when they decried the loss of Hariri – which I THINK only happened because it caught all ‘the tops’ by surprise that citizens could gather in one place to shout TOGETHER that they wanted something better, and wanted a dictator off their backs. They set an example for the Middle East, then went into quiet remission before finishing the job. Only did ONE part.
          Now the Egyptians are working on it. They can see it’s LONG road. The examples are before them. You can’t legislate democracy – it has to be a concept in everyone’s head first. Together. Free.

      2. JS_Bach Avatar

        But that doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, rockets were fired from Lebanese territory. The Lebanon government should then be filing complaints against those Palestinian groups using its territory to fire rockets. Not about the response when it takes place.

        Besides, today, the Lebanese “entity” if there is such a thing, has no problems with Israel. (Never had, I can argue.) Vice versa, I strongly believe that Israel has no territorial interests in Lebanon, counter to what many Lebanese are made to believe. The entire Shebaa Farms thing is a mythological creation. Israel has left Lebanon, period, and has been minding its business for quite a while. Any remaining hostility (airspace violations … blah blah blah) is simply due to a) these Palestinian factions who don’t answer to anybody and fire rockets haphazardly every once in a while, and b) Hezbollah’s stated goal in life of “liberating” Jerusalem and eradicating the Jewish State, both of which are not acts of “resistance” to “protect Lebanon”.

        My two cents.

        1. The only mythological creation here is your History, Shebaa Farms are very real, But in fact if You Israelis think is mythological why don’t You give them back.

          Lebanese army maps published in 1961 and 1966 specifically pinpoint several of the Shebaa Farms, including Zebdine, Fashkoul, Mougr Shebaa and Ramta, all of which are designated as being lebanese. Lebanese Ministry of Tourism maps also show the Lebanese-Syrian border running west of the Shebaa Farms. Syria has officially acknowledged the Farms are Lebanese.

          Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms belong to Lebanon. Assad told a news conference in Paris before ending a state visit to France, Beirut and Damascus will demarcate their countries’ border at Shebaa Farms after Israel withdraws from the region. They will then submit a new map to the UN.

  4. JS_Bach Avatar

    File a complaint about what exactly?! You fired rockets, you got a response. Simple. The UN complaint should be filed against the factions that continue to fire rockets, not cry me a river about the response when it happens.

    1. Hannibal Avatar

      LOL Are you against the resistance? How could you?
      Besides most likely those are Palestinians operating in Lebanon with Syrian blessing. I guess the retaliation makes more sense to be at Syria and at the long necked weird ears hyena in Damascus.

      1. cook2half Avatar
        cook2half

        That’s correct the Liberation of Palestine bla bla bla group is a puppet of Assad.
        The question however, is why the Lebanese government never complains about the Syrian air force bombing civilians on Lebanese soil? its no wonder the SNC calls them a ‘Hezbollah government’ …

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          The basic answer, Cookie, is that getting a war between 18 sects and several gangs (at that time more than now, perhaps, maybe…) to STOP 25 years of crap, and to try to rebuild a country – even with ‘Syrians In Charge For Protection’, they had to come up with the ‘equal shares’ bit, with also 2 ‘tops’ in place.
          It ‘calmed the scene’.
          But the idea that ‘Peace’ could take precedence over some brains by creating a false democracy never quite took hold. Sure, most want that, but here it’s only on their own gang’s terms. Not ‘FOR’ all living inside the squishy borders.
          And after they blew up Hariri, 6 years of ‘good’ got blown away too – although it prompted a passionate unarmed response of millions to get Syria out of the damn place – and their army (only) left. But Assad had left a few ‘monks’ behind. And some gang members. And ‘the people’ never saw that, or read the news.
          Some TRY. A vote takes place. And then … what?? No government.
          At every stage of development, ‘The People’ defeated themselves – except for the one moment when they decried the loss of Hariri – which I THINK only happened because it caught all ‘the tops’ by surprise that citizens could gather in one place to shout TOGETHER that they wanted something better, and wanted a dictator off their backs. They set an example for the Middle East, then went into quiet remission before finishing the job.
          Now the Egyptians are working on it. They can see it’s LONG road. The examples are before them. You can’t legislate democracy – it has to be a concept in everyone’s head first. Together. Free.

      2. JS_Bach Avatar

        But that doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, rockets were fired from Lebanese territory. The Lebanon government should then be filing complaints against those Palestinian groups using its territory to fire rockets. Not about the response when it takes place.

        Besides, today, the Lebanese “entity” if there is such a thing, has no problems with Israel. (Never had, I can argue.) Vice versa, I strongly believe that Israel has no territorial interests in Lebanon, counter to what many Lebanese are made to believe. The entire Shebaa Farms thing is a mythological creation. Israel has left Lebanon, period, and has been minding its business for quite a while. Any remaining hostility (airspace violations … blah blah blah) is simply due to these Palestinian factions who don’t answer to anybody and fire rockets haphazardly every once in a while, and Hezbollah’s stated goal in life of “liberating” Jerusalem and eradicating the Jewish State, both of which are not acts of “resistance” to “protect Lebanon”.

        My two cents.

        1. The only mythological creation here is your History, Shebaa Farms are very real, But in fact if You Israelis think is mythological why don’t You give them back.

          Lebanese army maps published in 1961 and 1966 specifically pinpoint several of the Shebaa Farms, including Zebdine, Fashkoul, Mougr Shebaa and Ramta, all of which are designated as being lebanese. Lebanese Ministry of Tourism maps also show the Lebanese-Syrian border running west of the Shebaa Farms. Syria has officially acknowledged the Farms are Lebanese.

          Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms belong to Lebanon. Assad told a news conference in Paris before ending a state visit to France, Beirut and Damascus will demarcate their countries’ border at Shebaa Farms after Israel withdraws from the region. They will then submit a new map to the UN.

  5. oh yeah, israel is going to be shaking in its boots if you call the united nations on this one ….NOT the UN is busy selling pop corn as every one watches the bodies being bagged from chemical assad,, as toothless as the un is israel would probably be more scared if you called the salvation army!

  6. oh yeah, israel is going to be shaking in its boots if you call the united nations on this one ….NOT the UN is busy selling pop corn as every one watches the bodies being bagged from chemical assad,, as toothless as the un is israel would probably be more scared if you called the salvation army!

  7. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    Yaknow, ya gotta protect those Hezboobs, after ALL!!

  8. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    Yaknow, ya gotta protect those Hezboobs, after ALL!!

  9. This is exactly what is driving people crazy, that the hypocrites of Israel blame the Lebanese Government when in reality this Palestinian problem is a consequence of Israel stealing the land from the Palestinians and trying to do an Ethnic Cleansing inside Lebanon to get rid of the Palestinians and keep the land, using Lebanon as killing grounds and adding a pretext to invade Lebanon and take more land for Israel.

    Furthermore, How many times the Lebanese Government has tried to buy weapons to deal with problems like this and the schoolgirls of Israel and USA oppose saying that this weapons could fall in to the hands of Hezbollah, But is in the Israeli interest to keep the status quo to grab more land, and We should be careful because they want Lebanese Land.

    Just Remember that when Lebanon and Syria Re-established Diplomatic relations in 2009, We opened Our Embassy in Syria and Syria opened theirs in Lebanon respecting each other autonomy,
    Stating that Shebaa Farms are Lebanese.

    This is what Israel didn’t like because goes against their greed for keeping the Golan Heights and Shebaa farms, And this is why USA the UK and Israel harvested from Turkey an insurrection to topple Bashar Assad, Israel Don’t want anybody to have peace in the region is goes against them, Israel always will try to divide the region fomenting civilian unrest and rivalry the same way is been during many years, is a war of divide and defeat and is time for everyone to see what is really behind all this innocent bloodshed, is Evil.
    Lebanese army maps published in 1961 and 1966 specifically pinpoint several of the Shebaa Farms, including Zebdine, Fashkoul, Mougr Shebaa and Ramta, all of which are designated as being lebanese. Lebanese Ministry of Tourism maps also show the Lebanese-Syrian border running west of the Shebaa Farms. Syria has officially acknowledged the Farms are Lebanese.

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms belong to Lebanon. Assad told a news conference in Paris before ending a state visit to France, Beirut and Damascus will demarcate their countries’ border at Shebaa Farms after Israel withdraws from the region. They will then submit a new map to the UN.
    You see? And now they want the Lebanese Government to do the dirty work killing Palestinians who in turn are protected by the UN this way Israel and USA can demonize Lebanon as committing genocide so the Israelis can keep Our Land/ Dirty game indeed, but only those with no moral are truly dirty.

  10. This is exactly what is driving people crazy, that the hypocrites of Israel blame the Lebanese Government when in reality this Palestinian problem is a consequence of Israel stealing the land from the Palestinians and trying to do an Ethnic Cleansing inside Lebanon to get rid of the Palestinians and keep the land, using Lebanon as killing grounds and adding a pretext to invade Lebanon and take more land for Israel.

    Furthermore, How many times the Lebanese Government has tried to buy weapons to deal with problems like this and the schoolgirls of Israel and USA oppose saying that this weapons could fall in to the hands of Hezbollah, But is in the Israeli interest to keep the status quo to grab more land, and We should be careful because they want Lebanese Land.

    Just Remember that when Lebanon and Syria Re-established Diplomatic relations in 2009, We opened Our Embassy in Syria and Syria opened theirs in Lebanon respecting each other autonomy,
    Stating that Shebaa Farms are Lebanese.

    This is what Israel didn’t like because goes against their greed for keeping the Golan Heights and Shebaa farms, And this is why USA the UK and Israel harvested from Turkey an insurrection to topple Bashar Assad, Israel Don’t want anybody to have peace in the region is goes against them, Israel always will try to divide the region fomenting civilian unrest and rivalry the same way is been during many years, is a war of divide and defeat and is time for everyone to see what is really behind all this innocent bloodshed, is Evil.

    You see? And now they want the Lebanese Government to do the dirty work killing Palestinians who in turn are protected by the UN this way Israel and USA can demonize Lebanon as committing genocide, Dirty game indeed, but only those with no moral are truly dirty.

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