UN peacekeepers say Israel built walls inside Lebanese territory

UNIFIL says it asked Israeli service to determination walls, which transverse unofficial ‘Blue Line’ borderline betwixt Lebanon and Israel.

The United Nations peacekeeping unit successful Lebanon (UNIFIL) says the Israeli subject has constructed walls successful Lebanese territory that transverse a UN-backed, unofficial “border” betwixt the 2 countries.

The connection connected Friday comes arsenic Israel has carried retired near-daily attacks crossed Lebanon – including successful the southbound of the country, successful peculiar – contempt a ceasefire signed a twelvemonth agone with Lebanese radical Hezbollah.

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In UNIFIL’s statement, the unit said Israel had built “a factual T-wall” southwest of Yaroun, a municipality successful Lebanon’s confederate Nabatieh district.

The partition extends crossed the so-called Blue Line and has made “more than 4,000 quadrate metres [43,055sq feet] of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the Lebanese people”, it added.

Established successful 2000, the Blue Line is simply a 120km (75-mile) unofficial “border” drawn up by the UN betwixt Lebanon and Israel.

The demarcation line’s main intent is to corroborate the withdrawal of the Israeli service from Lebanese territory arsenic mandated by UN Security Council resolutions.

In October, UNIFIL peacekeepers conducted a geospatial survey of a factual T-wall erected by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) southwest of Yaroun.

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UNIFIL said different conception of the wall, southeast of Yaroun, besides extends beyond the Blue Line. “UNIFIL informed the [Israeli army] of our findings and requested that they determination the walls,” it said.

In effect to UNIFIL’s connection connected Friday, the Israeli subject told the AFP quality bureau that the partition “is portion of a broader program whose operation began successful 2022”.

“Since the commencement of the war, and arsenic portion of lessons learnt from it, the [Israeli military] has been advancing a bid of measures, including reinforcing the carnal obstruction on the bluish border,” it said.

“It should beryllium emphasised that the partition does not transverse the Blue Line,” the subject added.

‘Violations’ of territorial integrity

Despite past November’s ceasefire agreement, the Israeli service has killed much than 4,000 radical and injured astir 17,000 successful its attacks connected Lebanon, which began successful October 2023 amid the Gaza warfare and turned into a full-scale violative successful September 2024.

As tensions increase, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam connected Thursday called for an extremity to Israel’s subject escalation successful confederate Lebanon, informing that it poses a menace to determination stability.

UNIFIL said “Israeli beingness and operation successful Lebanese territory are violations of Security Council solution 1701 and of Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

“We again telephone connected the [Israeli military] to respect the Blue Line successful its afloat magnitude and retreat from each areas northbound of it,” it added.

Resolution 1701, adopted successful 2006, calls for a cessation of hostilities betwixt Hezbollah and Israel and the constitution of a weapons-free portion betwixt the Blue Line and Lebanon’s Litani River.

Under past year’s ceasefire, the Israeli service was expected to retreat from confederate Lebanon successful January.

But it lone partially withdrew, continuing to support a subject beingness astatine 5 borderline outposts.