2024-03-22 20:53:21
Beirut – (AFP)
On Friday, Lebanon accused Israel of “jamming” the navigation systems at Beirut Airport since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip, and announced that it had filed a complaint with the UN Security Council.
There has been an almost daily exchange of shelling on the Lebanese-Israeli border between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on October 7.
These clashes raise fears of an expansion of the escalation regionally, while anxiety is growing in Lebanon.
The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement that it had instructed Lebanon’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York to “submit an urgent complaint to the UN Security Council about Israel’s attacks on Lebanese sovereignty, by disrupting navigation systems and civil aviation safety in the airspace of Rafic Hariri International Airport – Beirut.” “Since the start of the war on Gaza.”
The Lebanese Foreign Ministry stated that “this complaint came as a continuation of the campaign to document Israeli violations and violations, and a continuation of the series of complaints previously filed, as Lebanon denounces these Israeli actions that are characterized by the described recklessness” and “their dangerous consequences on the safety of civil aviation, as well as on the lives of thousands of civilian passengers daily, in A flagrant violation of the laws and regulations sponsored by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Air Transport Association (IATA), as well as the International Civil Aviation Convention signed in the American city of Chicago in 1944, in addition to international humanitarian law.”
In January; The departure and arrival screens at Beirut Airport were subjected to a cyber attack, and local media circulated footage showing an anti-Hezbollah message on the screens in the airport building.
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