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| Lebanon to file complaint at UN over Israel’s building of border wall |
| 2019-01-12 |
| [IsraelTimes] Order by Lebanese FM to raise issue at Security Council comes amid IDF campaign to destroy Hezbollah attack tunnels that enter Israeli territory Leb’s state-run National News Agency quoted Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil as calling the Israeli move a violation of a UN Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group. The report said the complaint was about a part of the wall that was being built on the edge of the Lebanese border village of Kfar Kela. Work on the security barrier began at the start of last year, with the joint IDF-Defense Ministry Borders and Security Fence Directorate having been cleared and received funding to build 13 kilometers (8 miles) of concrete walling along the approximately 130-kilometer (80-mile) border in order to protect the 22 adjacent Israeli villages. Eventually the plan is to construct a barrier along the entire border ‐ a project that would cost NIS 1.7 billion ($470 million). The concrete barrier is designed to serve two main functions: protect Israeli civilians and soldiers from sniper attacks, and prevent infiltration into Israel by Hezbollah operatives. The Lebanese government has contested the construction of the new border wall from the onset, arguing that it violates Lebanese illusory sovereignty in some locations. Leb has filed those complaints with the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL, which acts as a liaison between Israel and Leb. Some areas around the Israeli-Lebanese border are contested, with each country claiming the territory as its own ‐ for instance, the strip of land known by Israel as Mount Dov and by Leb as Sheba’a Farms. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Did no one tell the Israelis that walls don't work? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-01-12 08:24 |