Published On 15/11/2025
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Last update: 19:51 (Mecca time)
The Lebanese presidency announced – today, Saturday – that Lebanon will file a complaint with the UN Security Council against Israel for building a concrete wall on Lebanon’s southern border that crosses the “Blue Line.”
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said that Israel’s continued presence in Lebanese territory and its construction work are a violation of Resolution 1701, stressing that the Israeli concrete wall prevents residents from accessing about 4,000 square meters of the country’s territory.
The Blue Line is a line drawn by the United Nations, separating Lebanon from Israel and the Syrian Golan Heights, which is occupied by Israel. Israeli forces withdrew to the Blue Line upon leaving southern Lebanon in 2000.
In October 2023, armed border confrontations broke out between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which Tel Aviv turned in September 2024 into a comprehensive war, during which it killed more than 4,000 people, injured about 17,000, and left great devastation in Lebanon.
Israel is still defying the agreement by continuing to occupy five Lebanese hills in the south that it controlled in the last war, in addition to other Lebanese areas that it has occupied for decades.
Yesterday, Friday, the spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stephane Dujarric, said that the concrete wall erected by the Israeli army prevented local residents from accessing an area exceeding 4,000 square meters of Lebanese territory.
Dujarric added, citing peacekeeping forces (UNIFIL) that conducted a survey of the area, that part of another wall crossing the Blue Line is being constructed east of Yaron. He said that UNIFIL informed the Israeli army of its findings and requested the removal of the wall.
UNIFIL said in a separate statement, “Israel’s presence on Lebanese territory and the construction work it is conducting there constitute a violation of Security Council Resolution 1701 and Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
