Lebanon to submit urgent complaint against Israel to UN Security Council

BEIRUT

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Sunday said his government will submit an urgent complaint against Israel to the UN Security Council in response to “Tel Aviv’s targeting of civilians and children” in southern Lebanon.

“The Israeli enemy’s targeting of civilians in its aggression against Lebanon, and the martyrdom of four people, including three children, in the south tonight, and the wounding of others by drone fire, is a heinous crime,” Mikati's office said in a statement.

“This crime is a new stain on the global conscience that condones what the Israeli occupation is doing in southern Lebanon and Gaza," he said, affirming "this heinous crime will not go unnoticed, and will be followed up by the government, through international communications, and an urgent complaint against the Israeli enemy will be submitted to the Security Council."

The official Lebanese National News Agency earlier said Israeli drones targeted a civilian vehicle in the Bint Jbeil town of Nabatiye province. The victims were a woman and her three granddaughters aged 10, 12, and 14, it said, adding that the Israeli raid also led to the injury of the mother of the three children and journalist Samir Ayoub, a relative of the victims, who was in another car.

In response, Lebanese group Hezbollah said it fired rockets targeting Israel’s northern Kiryat Shemona settlement.

Israeli troops and Hezbollah have been clashing for a month along the border since the start of the latest conflict in Gaza on Oct. 7.

*Writing by Mahmoud Barakat