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Lebanon Condemns Israeli Violations of Its Airspace to Strike Syria

Lebanon intends to submit a complaint to Security Council (Dalati and Nohra / DPA)
Lebanon intends to submit a complaint to Security Council (Dalati and Nohra / DPA)
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Lebanon Condemns Israeli Violations of Its Airspace to Strike Syria

Lebanon intends to submit a complaint to Security Council (Dalati and Nohra / DPA)
Lebanon intends to submit a complaint to Security Council (Dalati and Nohra / DPA)

Lebanon will file a complaint before UN the Security Council against Israel for recently using Lebanese airspace to attack Syria.

On Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants issued a statement "strongly condemning" the recent Israeli aggression and the "Israeli enemy's use of Lebanese airspace to bombard Syrian territory."

The Ministry warned against the consequences of this aggressive behavior and the continued violations of Lebanese sovereignty and international laws.

The Ministry disclosed that it would "file a complaint to the Security Council, asking it to seriously intervene to put an end to these ongoing Israeli violations."

For his part, a member of the Development and Liberation Bloc, MP Kassem Hashem, said the attack on Syria from Lebanon's airspace was an attack on Lebanon and a violation of national sovereignty.

He pointed out that the repeated violations require the Lebanese government to file a complaint to the United Nations.

In turn, MP Hassan Murad called on the government to submit an urgent complaint to the Security Council.

Murad indicated that the enemy is violating Lebanon's airspace to practice its terrorism in Syria, calling on the authorities to submit an urgent complaint to the Security Council rejecting the Zionist violations and use of Lebanese airspace to attack Syria.

Also, Vice-President of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council, Sheikh Ali al-Khatib, condemned "the Zionist attacks on Syria and the violation of Lebanese airspace."

Khatib said it is double aggression against the two countries, urging the UN to take deterrent measures against the Zionist enemy.

He asserted that statements of condemnation and recording the violations of UN Resolution 1701 are not enough.

Khatib warned that this dangerous aggression identifies with the blockade, sanctions, and the policy of starving the Syrian and Lebanese peoples, noting that the situation requires solidarity, cooperation, and increasing coordination between the two countries.

Furthermore, the central leadership of Syria's Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Lebanon condemned the Israeli attack and called on Lebanon to file a complaint to the UN Security Council about Israel's violation of Lebanese sovereignty.

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Remains of 30 People Believed Killed by ISIS Found in Syria in a Search by Qatar and FBI 

Journalist James Foley responds to questions during an interview with The Associated Press, in Boston, May 27, 2011. (AP)
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Remains of 30 People Believed Killed by ISIS Found in Syria in a Search by Qatar and FBI 

Journalist James Foley responds to questions during an interview with The Associated Press, in Boston, May 27, 2011. (AP)
Journalist James Foley responds to questions during an interview with The Associated Press, in Boston, May 27, 2011. (AP)

The remains of 30 people believed to have been killed by the ISIS group have been found in a remote Syrian town in a search led by Qatari search teams and the FBI, according to a statement from Qatar on Monday.

The Qatari internal security forces said the FBI had requested the search, and that DNA tests are currently underway to determine the identities of the people. The Qatari agency did not whom the American intelligence and security agency is trying to find.

Dozens of foreigners, including aid workers and journalists, were killed by ISIS militants who had controlled large swaths of Syria and Iraq for half a decade. The extremist group lost most of its territory in late 2017 and was declared defeated in 2019.

Since then, dozens of gravesites and mass graves have been discovered in northern Syria containing remains and bodies of people ISIS had abducted over the years.

American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, as well as humanitarian workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig are among those killed by ISIS.

John Cantlie, a British correspondent, was abducted alongside Foley in 2012, and was last seen alive in one of the extremist group's propaganda videos in 2016.

The search took place in the town of Dabiq, near Syria's northern border with Türkiye.

Mass graves have also found in areas previously controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who was ousted in a lightning insurgency last December, ending his family's half-century rule. For years, the Assads used their notorious security and intelligence agencies to crack down on dissidents, many who have gone missing.

The United Nations in 2021 estimated that over 130,000 Syrians were taken away and disappeared during the peaceful uprising that began in 2011 and descended into a 13-year civil war.