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Israeli planes violate Lebanese airspace

21 July 2011 05:00 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Four Israeli reconnaissance planes have violated Lebanon’s airspace and flown over the country in flagrant violation of a UN Security Council resolution, APA reports quoting Press TV.

The Lebanese army said in a statement that the incursion happened over the country’s southern border on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Israel violates Lebanon’s airspace on an almost daily basis, claiming the flights serve surveillance purposes.

Lebanon’s government, the Hezbollah resistance movement, and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, have repeatedly condemned the overflights, saying they are in clear violation of UN Resolution 1701 and the country’s sovereignty.

UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against Lebanon in 2006, calls on Tel Aviv to respect Beirut’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.