JNS
Beirut wants the council to pressure Israel to “completely withdraw to beyond the internationally recognized borders,” stop its attacks and release Lebanese prisoners.
Lebanon accuses Israel of more than 2,000 violations of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in a formal complaint filed with the United Nations Security Council, multiple outlets reported.
In the Monday filing, Beirut’s U.N. mission said Israel committed 2,036 violations of Lebanese sovereignty in the final quarter of 2025, including 542 incidents in October, 691 in November and 803 in December. (JNS sought comment from the Israeli mission to the global body.)
Lebanon called on the Security Council to pressure Israel to “completely withdraw to beyond the internationally recognized borders” and stop its attacks. It also said Israel must release Lebanese prisoners.
The Jewish state has fired on Hezbollah targets in Southern Lebanon regularly, including a round of air strikes across Southern Lebanon on Sunday, which reportedly killed at least two.
The Lebanese Armed Forces was supposed to have disarmed Hezbollah by the end of the year, per an agreement between Washington and Beirut. The longstanding U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 demands a complete disarmament of non-state actors in Lebanon and the return of Lebanese sovereignty to the southern part of the country.
Lebanon says its mission south of the strategic Litani River is complete, but Israeli officials have said Hezbollah is increasing its weapons stockpiles.
The Jewish state is supposed to withdraw troops from five locations in southern Lebanon upon Hezbollah’s disarmament.
Washington brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, via Lebanon, in November 2024 after Israel decimated Hezbollah’s chain of command through a series of decapitation strikes that came after a year of relentless Hezbollah bombardment of Israeli territory in support of Hamas.
The sides have avoided all-out war since then, but both Israel and Lebanon have reported ceasefire violations regularly on the other side of the border.
