Lebanon's Foreign Ministry filed on Monday a complaint against Israel at the United Nations Security Council over its repeated violation of its sovereignty.
The complaint detailed violations committed by Israel in from October to December 2025.It documented 542 violations in October, 691 in November and 803 in December.
These incidents are a "flagrant" violation of Lebanon's sovereignty, said the ministry, accusing Israel of failing to commit to Security Council 1701 and the November 2024 ceasefire.
It called on the council to obligate Israel to implement the resolution, withdraw its forces from the five locations it is still occupying in southern Lebanon, release Lebanese prisoners and cease its repeated violations.
President Joseph Aoun met with Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi on Monday. Later on Monday, the FM held talks with French Ambassador to Lebanon Herve Magro on bilateral ties and regional and international developments, especially the situation in southern Lebanon.
The ambassador briefed him on Paris' preparations to hold a conference in support of the Lebanese army in March, stressing the importance of international pressure on Israel for it to implement resolution 1701.
Raggi, for his part, underlined the government's commitment to impose state monopoly over arms throughout the country.
Hezbollah said on Monday that an Israeli strike in the country's south killed TV presenter Ali Nour al-Din, who worked for the group's affiliated Al-Manar television station.
The group said the killing portends "the danger of Israel's extended escalations (in Lebanon) to include the media community".
The Israeli military said later on Monday that al-Din was a Hezbollah militant who recently worked to rehabilitate the group's artillery capabilities in southern Lebanon.
Israel and Lebanon agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire in 2024 to end more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which culminated in Israeli strikes that severely weakened the Iran-backed group. Since then, the sides have traded accusations over ceasefire violations.
Lebanon has faced growing pressure from the US and Israel to disarm Hezbollah. The group's leaders fear that Israel could dramatically escalate strikes across the battered country, aiming to push the Lebanese government for quicker action to confiscate Hezbollah's arsenal.
