Lebanon files UN complaint against Israel’s daily ceasefire violations

Lebanese authorities says it documented 2,036 Israeli breaches of Lebanon’s sovereignty successful the past 3 months of 2025.

Lebanon has filed a ailment with the United Nations astir repeated Israeli violations of a November 2024 ceasefire, calling connected the Security Council to propulsion Israel to end its attacks and afloat retreat from the country.

The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants said the complaint, sent connected Monday, stressed that Israeli abuses are a “clear” usurpation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a warfare betwixt Israel and Hezbollah successful 2006.

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The ministry said it called connected the 15-member assemblage to compel Israel to “completely retreat to beyond the internationally recognised borders”, extremity its repeated violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty and merchandise Lebanese prisoners it is holding.

“The ailment included 3 tables detailing Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty connected a regular ground during the months of October, November and December 2025. The fig of these violations amounted to 542, 691 and 803 respectively, totaling 2,036 violations,” it added.

The ailment was made a time aft Israel launched a question of aerial strikes crossed Lebanon, killing astatine slightest 2 people.

Despite the 2024 ceasefire, the Israeli subject has been launching near-daily attacks successful Lebanon, which person killed hundreds of people. In November past year, the UN enactment the fig of civilians killed successful Israeli attacks astatine at slightest 127.

Israel besides continues to inhabit 5 points wrong Lebanese territory arsenic it blocks the reconstruction of respective borderline villages that it levelled to the ground, preventing tens of thousands of displaced radical from returning to their homes.

Meanwhile, Israel is estimated to beryllium holding much than a twelve Lebanese prisoners, including Hezbollah fighters and civilians who were taken from borderline villages successful 2024. Israel has resisted calls to taxable a database of the Lebanese citizens it is holding, leaving the destiny of galore missing radical successful confederate Lebanon successful limbo.

Israeli forces person besides repeatedly opened occurrence astatine peacekeepers successful the UN Interim Force successful Lebanon (UNIFIL) successful confederate Lebanon.

The Foreign Ministry successful Beirut said connected Monday that “it called for unit to beryllium exerted connected Israel to halt its attacks connected UNIFIL, which continues to marque the eventual sacrifices to bring information and stableness to the region.”

Lebanon has filed akin complaints to the UN successful the past, but Israeli attacks person not relented.

On Monday, Israeli drones dropped 2 stun grenades successful the confederate colony of Odaisseh, Lebanese quality outlets reported.

Israel had severely weakened Hezbollah successful an all-out warfare precocious successful 2024, sidesplitting astir of the group’s subject and governmental leaders. Israel’s run has helped it found a caller equilibrium of powerfulness and allowed it to motorboat regular assaults successful Lebanon without a response.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese authorities has been pushing to disarm Hezbollah.

This month, Beirut said it had completed the removal of the group’s weapons southbound of the Litani River, 28km (17 miles) from the Israeli border.

Despite that announcement, Israeli aerial strikes person continued some southbound and northbound of the Litani.

Hezbollah has tacitly agreed to disarmament southbound of the Litani successful accordance with UN Resolution 1701, but it has warned that it volition not wholly springiness up its weapons, arguing that they are indispensable to halt Israel’s expansionism.

The adjacent signifier of the Lebanese government’s program to region Hezbollah’s weapons volition people the portion astir 40km (25 miles) northbound of the Litani River to the Awali River.