{"id":187039,"date":"2004-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=187039"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:10:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:10:51","slug":"auto-insert-187039","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-187039\/","title":{"rendered":"Violations across the Blue Line &#8211; Letter from Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Letter dated 22 January 2004 from the Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;On instructions from my Government, I am transmitting to you a summary of security-related events in southern Lebanon.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;At 1415 hours on 15 January 2004, aircraft of the Israeli air force carried out medium-altitude flights over the `Alma al-Sha`b guardhouse.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;At 1510 hours on the same day, in the vicinity of `Ayta al-Sha`b, Ruweisat al-Namriyy&#225; district, Israeli forces fired a number of rounds of machine gun fire at Muhammad Hassan Surur, a 22-year-old Lebanese national, and Fadl Abbas Jawad, a 20-year-old Lebanese national. They were not hit.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;At 2300 hours on 18 January 2004, in the R&#224;s Naqurah district, an Israeli military vessel opened fire on a Lebanese fishing boat in Lebanese territorial waters. No casualties were reported.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;These serious violations are part of a long series of deliberate and provocative breaches by Israel of Lebanese airspace, waters and land, and are contrary to the principles of international law, legitimate international decisions and the repeated appeals by the Secretary-General for an end to such actions.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;In the light of those breaches, the worsening tension and the ever more serious threats by Israel against Lebanon, its territory and its population, Lebanon urges the Security Council to deter and prevent Israel from committing such violations and issuing such threats, which endanger the peace and security of both States. Israel bears full responsibility for those violations and threats, and for any consequences that might ensue.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;The Permanent Mission of Lebanon draws the attention of the Secretary-General to the gravity of these acts of aggression and to the consequences that may ensue, and requests him to have the text of this complaint circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 37, and of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">(<i>Signed<\/i>) Sami <strong>Kronfol<\/strong><br \/>\nAmbassador<br \/>\nPermanent Representative<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">________<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter dated 22 January 2004 from the Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General &nbsp;&nbsp;On instructions from my Government, I am transmitting to you a summary of security-related events in southern Lebanon. &nbsp;&nbsp;At 1415 hours on 15 January 2004, aircraft of the Israeli air force carried out medium-altitude flights over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-187039\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897,933],"document-category":[2841],"document-source":[1365,1362],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6156,1857,1965],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-187039","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","country-lebanon","document-category-letter","document-source-general-assembly","document-source-security-council","document-subject-agenda-item","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-situation-in-lebanon","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/187039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/187039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=187039"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=187039"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=187039"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=187039"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=187039"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=187039"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=187039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}