Tuesday, May 7, 2013

 

United Nations calls on Israel to halt military flights over Lebanon.

The United Nations has called on Israel to cease its military air patrols over Lebanon in the wake of two pre-dawn air raids into Syria by Israeli warplanes on Friday.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon registered its “firm” protest with the Israeli Defense Force following a drastic uptick in “Israeli air violations over Lebanese airspace” over the past week, United Nations spokesman Martin Nesirky said on Tuesday.

Nesirky noted that the overflights are both a violation of Lebanese sovereignty as well as Security Council resolution 1701, which allowed for a ceasefire which ended Israel’s 2006 military incursion into Lebanon.
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