{"id":179430,"date":"1996-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=179430"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:51:09","slug":"auto-insert-179430","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-179430\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Lebanon – Letter from Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY\t<\/span>SECURITY COUNCIL<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fiftieth session\t<\/span>Fifty-first year<\/p><\/div>\n

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Agenda item 44<\/p><\/div>\n

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THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST<\/p><\/div>\n

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          Letter dated 18 June 1996 from the Permanent Representative of<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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          Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>On instructions from my Government and further to our earlier letters concerning repeated Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon, I have the honour to notify you of the series of such attacks that took place in the second half of May 1996.<\/p><\/div>\n

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17 May 1996<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At 1030 hours Israeli warplanes overflew the Nabatiyah area at low altitudes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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18 May 1996<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Between 0400 and 0430 hours Israeli gunboats seized two fishing boats.  <\/p><\/div>\n

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On board the first boat were:  Khalil Ali Dirmsis, 31; his brother Abbas Ali Dirmsis, 26; and Darwish Fadl Haju, 55.  On board the other boat were:  Husayn Ibrahim Amis, 31; and Ahmad Hasan Qazan, 27.<\/p><\/div>\n

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19 May 1996<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>An Israeli gunboat rammed and caused serious damage to the fishing boat Ilham II<\/u> (No. 1337) off Qulaylah beach.  The following were on board:  Husayn Na`im Ghanim, 18; Hasan Tawfiq Ghanim, 17; and Hani Tawfiq Barnawi, 27.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At 0800 hours the outskirts of Kafr Tibnit came under Israeli artillery fire.  This was accompanied by overflights of the area by Israeli helicopter gunships.  Nawal Ali Basal, a 40-year-old Lebanese woman, was wounded in the shelling and taken to Ghandur hospital in Nabatiyah al-Fawqa.<\/p><\/div>\n

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20 May 1996<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At 0930 hours Israeli warplanes overflew the Iqlim al-Tuffah area.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At 2200 hours Israeli warplanes overflew the Iqlim al-Tuffah area at low altitudes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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22 May 1996<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At 1630 hours Israeli warplanes overflew the Iqlim al-Tuffah area at low altitudes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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23 May 1996<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At 1100 hours an artillery shell fired from one of the Israeli positions in the border strip fell on the outskirts of Suhmur.<\/p><\/div>\n

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25 May 1996<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At 1400 hours the Mlita and Jabal Safi hills, the outskirts of Luwayzah and areas along the Nab` al-Tasah wadi came under Israeli artillery fire.<\/p><\/div>\n

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29 May 1996<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At 0730 hours the outskirts of Frun, Ghanduriyah and Tulin came under Israeli artillery fire.<\/p><\/div>\n

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31 May 1996<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At 0230 hours Israeli warplanes attacked Tallat al-Kayyal in Baalbek and bombed an ammunition dump belonging to Hizb Allah.  They were met with ground-based anti-aircraft fire.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>The Lebanese Government strongly condemns these Israeli attacks, which have caused enormous damage to property.  It further condemns in the strongest terms the arbitrary practices directed against civilians.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Like previous attacks, this new series is in flagrant violation of the sovereignty and independence of Lebanon and constitutes a breach of international law and basic human rights.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>I should be grateful if you would have this letter circulated as a document of the fiftieth session of the General Assembly, under agenda item 44, and of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(Signed<\/u>)  Samir MOUBARAK     <\/p><\/div>\n

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Permanent Representative<\/p><\/div>\n

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