Identical letters dated 8 September 2005 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the
United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council
On instructions from my Government, I transmit to you herewith a statistical table showing the number of Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty which occurred during August 2005, i.e., a total of 79 violations (see annex).
These violations are in contravention of the relevant Security Council resolutions, the latest of which is resolution 1614 (2005), and go against the Secretary-General’s repeated calls for their cessation, most recently in his report S/2005/460 of 20 July 2005. Lebanon depends on the United Nations to compel Israel to desist from these violations, which constitute a threat to international peace and security, and holds Israel responsible for any consequences to which those acts may give rise.
I request you to have this letter and its annex circulated to the members of the Security Council as a document of the Council under the agenda item on the situation in the Middle East.
(Signed) Ibrahim Assaf
Chargé d’affaires a.i.
Annex to the identical letters dated 8 September 2005 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council
Statistical table showing Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty during August 2005
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Air violations
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Sea violations |
Land violations |
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Military acts of aggression |
Field violations |
Breaches |
Total violations |
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Military jet |
Reconnaissance |
Helicopter |
Total |
Crossing of territorial waters, artillery fire and shooting of flares and firebombs over territorial waters |
Air raids, artillery shelling, shelling of military positions and important posts, attacks on and killing of civilians |
Gunfire, shooting of flares, dropping of artillery missiles, infiltration and crossing of international borders |
Threats and displaying of weapons, bulldozing of soil, placing of barbed wire and setting up of installations inside Lebanese territory |
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6 |
39 |
2 |
47 |
25 |
– |
6 |
1 |
79 |
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Document Type: Letter
Document Sources: General Assembly, Security Council
Country: Israel, Lebanon
Subject: Agenda Item, Incidents, Situation in Lebanon
Publication Date: 08/09/2005