Hezbollah MP lauds Salam decision to file UN complaint against Israel

MP Ibrahim al-Moussawi of Hezbollah has said that “Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s move to instruct the foreign minister to file a complaint to the U.N. Security Council over the latest Israeli attacks in the South was a step in the right direction, although it came late.”

“We look forward to further activation of the Lebanese diplomacy and governmental steps in this regard,” Moussawi added.

Salam has asked Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji to “file an urgent complaint with the Security Council regarding the latest Israeli aggression that targeted civilian and commercial facilities in Msayleh, in a blatant violation of Resolution 1701 and the arrangements of the cessation of hostilities agreement that were issued in November.”

Rajji later instructed Lebanon’s permanent envoy to the U.N. to address an urgent complaint to the Security Council and the U.N. secretary-general over the Oct. 11 Israeli airstrike on “a number of bulldozer and excavator showrooms on the Msayleh-Zahrani road in the Sidon district, which resulted in the death and wounding of several civilians and grave material damage to the targeted firms.”

Rajji also asked Lebanon’s permanent mission in New York to publish the complaint’s letter and distribute it as an official document to all member states of the Security Council.

The Foreign Ministry had on Saturday issued a statement condemning the repeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon, saying “they represent a flagrant breach of U.N. Resolution 1701 and the cessation of hostilities agreement” and warning that they also “obstruct the Lebanese Army’s efforts for implementing the arms monopolization plan.”