Israeli Violations After July War

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Israeli drone violates Lebanese airspace

The Daily Star
11-09-2007

An Israeli surveillance drone flew through Lebanese airspace at 8 a.m., a Lebanese Army report said on Monday. The report added that the drone flew over Southern regions as well the Baalbek region in the North. The Israeli vehicle left Lebanese skies at 8 p.m. the same day. Similar reports said.

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Israeli airspace violations continue

The Daily Star
12-09-2007

Four Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airpace between 12:10 p.m. and 13:20 p.m. Tuesday, according to a Lebanese Army report. The report added that an Israeli surveillance drone was also seen over the Bekaa Valley.

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Six avions israéliens survolent le Sud Liban à basse altitude

Libnanews
18-09-2007

Des sources sécuritaires libanaises ont indiqué que 6 avions israéliens ont violé la résolution 1701 du Conseil de Sécurité garantissant la souveraineté du pays des cèdres en survolant vers 10h du matin en survolant à basse attitude les localités de Saïda, de Tyr et de Bint Jbeil au Sud Liban, produisant des bang supersoniques.

Six Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese air space

Agencies
19-09-2007

TYRE, Lebanon • Israeli warplanes made low-altitude passes over southern Lebanon yesterday, in defiance of a UN ceasefire resolution, Lebanese police said.
Six aircraft violated Lebanese airspace from 10 am (0700 GMT), swooping low over the port cities of Sidon and Tyre where they caused sonic booms, police said.
The planes also overflow the Bint Jbeil region, a stronghold of the Hezbollah group, they said. Israeli warplanes have violated Lebanese airspace in the past two weeks on a near-daily basis, but yesterday’s overpasses were lower in altitude and caused sonic bangs. Israel has drawn intense international criticism by continuing over flights after the August 14, 2006 ceasefire based on a UN resolution that ended last year's 34-day war against Hezbollah. Meanwhile, Israeli President Shimon Peres said yesterday tensions between the Jewish state and Syria had declined after reports of an Israeli air raid against its neighbor this month. Peres cautioned against "rumors and speculation" but did not comment during a news conference on reports that Israel may have targeted weapons headed for Lebanon's Hezbollah group or a suspected nuclear site.

Israelis step up airspace violations

Daily Star staff
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Israeli warplanes made low-altitude passes over Southern Lebanon on Tuesday, in defiance of the United Nations cease-fire resolution that ended the summer 2006 war, Lebanese security officials said. Six aircraft violated Lebanese airspace starting at 10:00 a.m., swooping low and breaking the sound barrier over the port cities of Sidon and Tyre, police said.

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Survols israéliens de Beyrouth

L'Orient le Jour
27-09-2007

L’armée a publié hier un communiqué soulignant que dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi, l’aviation israélienne a survolé plusieurs localités du Liban-Sud, ainsi que Beyrouth et Chekka.
Dans la journée d’hier, les avions israéliens ont survolé à basse altitude les cazas de Bint Jbeil et de Marjeyoun, effectuant des raids fictifs au-dessus des localités de Khiam et de Marjeyoun.

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Four Israeli warplanes have violated Lebanese airspace

Kuwait news agency
28/09/2007

Two Israeli warplanes breached Lebanese airspace over the sea off Joni and then flew southerly over Alma al-Shaab town, the Lebanese army said in a release. Two similar jets also violated the Lebanese airspace by flying over Naqura town in south and then flew northerly. They then hovered over Beirut and South, it added.

Quatre avions israéliens survolent Beyrouth

L'Orient le Jour
29-09-2007

Le commandement de l’armée a signalé hier, dans un communiqué, que quatre avions militaires israéliens ont violé l’espace aérien libanais dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi. Les avions ont survolé le Liban-Sud et Beyrouth.

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Israel fighter jets breach Lebanese airspace

Xinhua
6-10-2007

Israeli fighter jets breached Lebanese airspace yesterday and flew over southern Lebanese areas and the Bekaa Valley, the official National News Agency(NNA)reported.

The report quoted security sources as saying that Israel's fighter jets flew at a high altitude over Arqoub, Hasbiya, West Bekaa, Iqlim Al-Tufah and Marjiyoun as well as over the south.

Meanwhile, a statement by the Lebanese Army's Guidance Directorate said an Israeli scouting plane breached Lebanese airspace after midnight from the sea area by Naqoura town in the south. It then headed north and made a round over Beirut before exiting.

Israel has continued to carry out flights over Lebanese territory despite a UN-brokered ceasefire, which ended the 34-dayIsrael-Hezbollah war on Aug. 14 of 2006.

The Jewish state repeatedly announced that it would continue controversial flights over Lebanon, saying they were needed to stem alleged arms smuggling to Hezbollah.

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Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace

Press TV
14-10-2007

The Lebanese Army Command has announced that Israeli jets have once again violated the country's airspace by flying over Lebanese cities.

The Zionist reconnaissance aircraft flew over the southern city of Naqoura as well as the capital city of Beirut on Saturday, Al-Manar TV reported.

Israeli warplanes have invaded the Lebanese airspace and territory while the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, has been deployed in the south of the country to ensure peace and security.

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L'armée libanaise ouvre le feu sur deux avions israéliens survolant le sud du pays à basse altitude

Associated Press (AP)
25-10-2007

L'armée libanaise a ouvert le feu jeudi sur deux avions israéliens qui survolaient le sud du pays à basse altitude, mais aucun de ces appareils n'a été touché, ont déclaré des responsables libanais.

Les forces libanaises ont fait usage de mitrailleuses et d'armes antiaériennes légères montées sur des véhicules blindés en direction de deux avions de la chasse israélienne qui survolaient le secteur de l'est de Marjayoun près de la frontière libano-israélienne à la mi-journée.

C'est la première fois que les troupes libanaises ouvrent le feu sur des avions israéliens depuis le 14 août 2006, date du cessez-le-feu qui avait mis un terme à un violent conflit d'un mois entre l'armée israélienne et le Hezbollah dans le sud du Liban.

C'est également la première fois depuis le mois de février que l'armée libanaise, qui s'est déployée dans le sud du pays après le conflit, tire sur des Israéliens.

Lebanese Army fires on Israeli planes violating airspace over South
'If we had missiles we would shoot them down one by one'

The Daily Star
26-10-2007

Lebanese Army fires on Israeli planes violating airspace over South

BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army opened fire on Israeli warplanes flying low over South Lebanon on Thursday, in the first incident of its kind since the summer 2006 war. "Israeli warplanes were flying lower than usual over Lebanon and so we fired at them," a senior army source told The Daily Star, confirming that gunners fired on intruding aircraft twice.

At midmorning on Thursday, Lebanese troops fired on two planes using machine guns and light anti-aircraft weapons mounted on armored vehicles, one near the town of Marjayoun town, and the other over Maroun al-Ras.

While the army source would not give the altitude at which the planes flew, he said that the distance was out of reach of the army's weapons.

"Our firing is not for show, but for effect; if we had missiles we would shoot them down one by one for violating Lebanon's sovereignty," said the army source.

There was no official response from the Israeli military, and there were no reports from Occupied Jerusalem of any planes being hit.

An army statement issued later in the day said "the Lebanese Army's ground antiaircraft guns confronted the hostile Israeli aircraft during its violation of Lebanese airspace over the regions of Marjayoun and Bint Jbeil."

Israeli warplanes and drones regularly violate Lebanese airspace for what Israel calls reconnaissance missions, but the United Nations and Beirut condemn them as provocative violations of Security Council resolutions and Lebanon's sovereignty.

Earlier this year, Lebanese and Israeli soldiers briefly exchanged fire near the border village of Maroun al-Ras in one of the less clearly marked areas along the UN-demarcated Blue Line separating the South of Lebanon from Israel.

Israeli overflights are a longstanding source of tension between the two countries, with daily reports by the army on the areas flown over by the Israeli warplanes and drones.


On Thursday, the army released a statement in which it detailed the areas violated by "Israeli spy planes" which included Beirut, the Eastern Bekaa Valley, and the southern towns of Nabatiyeh, Bint Jbeil, Khiam, Marjayoun, Kferkala, Jezzine, Naqoura and Tyre.

Lebanon has seen an increasing number of overflights in recent days and the shooting at the planes on Thursday was seen by some observers as evidence of mounting impatience with the Israelis and the inability of the UN to prevent such overflights despite frequent complaints.

The deployment of about 15,000 Lebanese troops and some 13,000 UN peacekeepers under the UN-brokered ceasefire that ended the war has not stopped the overflights, despite the UN's repeated criticism that such actions undermine the credibility of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

"The Israeli flights over Lebanon constitute repeated violations of Security Council resolutions, and also damage efforts to reduce tension and stabilize the situation," UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti told The Daily Star.

He added that the UNIFIL commander and senior UN representatives in the region, as well as a number of interested member states, "have voiced concern and called on Israel to cease these air violations."

Tenenti said that UNIFIL regularly reports to the Security Council about all violations.

"We urge all parties to act with restraint in order to avoid any escalation of the situation," said Tenenti.

The Lebanese government has repeatedly asked the United Nations to put an end to the violations. - With agencies

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انتشار اسرائيلي على الحدود اللبنانية تمهيداً لمناورات الجليل
وتدريبات للجيش اللبناني و"اليونيفيل" غـدا في القطاع الشرقي

المركزية
29/10/2007

عشية المناورات العسكرية الاسرائيلية في الجليل التي ستستمر اربعة ايام تحت عنوان "استخلاص عبر الاخفاق في حرب تموز" نشرت اسرائيل قواتها على إمتداد الحدود الدولية جنوبا ووزعت وحداتها العسكرية في مواجهة الاراضي اللبنانية من الناقورة غربا حتى مزارع شبعا المحتلة شرقا، وقد شوهدت عشرات الآليات العسكرية في الجانب الآخر من الحدود مع أفراد طواقمها وهم في حالة عالية من الاستعداد الى جانب ناقلات جند مدرعة فذلك لتأمين الحماية للوحدات العسكرية

الى ذلك استحدثت القوات الاسرائيلية موقعاً عسكرياً عند الاطراف الشمالية لمستعمرة المطلة مقابل سهل الخيام. وشوهدت جرافة اسرائيلية تقوم بأعمال الحفر ورفع للسواتر قرب معمل الحمضيات القريب من الشريط الفاصل عند سهل الخيام لمراقبة الاراضي اللبنانية. وتتم الاعمال الاسرائيلية بمواكبة عسكرية اسرائيلية، حيث انتشر عدد من جنود الاحتلال في المنطقة واتخذوا وضعيات قتالية مصوبين اسلحتهم الرشاشة باتجاه الجانب اللبناني، فيما كانت دوريات للكتيبة الاسبانية العاملة في اطار "اليونيفيل" تعبر طريق الخيام - الحمامص وتراقب الاشغال الاسرائيلية من دون الاقتراب من السياج الفاصل

وفي الجانب اللبناني سينفذ الجيش اللبناني بالتنسيق مع القوة الدولية المعززة "اليونيفيل" في القطاع الشرقي من الجنوب غدا الثلثاء مناورة بالذخيرة الحية الى جانب تدريبات عسكرية أخرى، وتشارك فيها وحدات من المشاة والمدرعات والمدفعية والمجوقلة، وستكون ساحة هذه المناورات عند تخوم مزارع شبعا المحتلة توصلا الى مزرعة المجيدية والعباسية المحاذية للسياج الشائك جنوبا والى بلدة الماري وقرى منطقة العرقوب الاخرى
وتلقى رؤساء بلديات المنطقة ومخاتيرها من قيادة "اليونيفيل" في القطاع الشرقي بيانا بتفاصيل الحركة العسكرية في هذا القطاع، وطلبت اليهم إبلاغ الاهالي بذلك كي لا يدب الهلع في نفوسهم

وقد باشرت القوة المشتركة اللبنانية - الدولية على هذا المحور دوريات مؤللة مشتركة، كما تقيم حواجز تفتيش عند مداخل قرى القطاع وعند مفترقات الطرق بما في ذلك طريق العباسية - الغجر - الوزاني
على صعيد الخروق الاسرائيلية اعلنت قيادة الجيش - مديرية التوجيه في بيان اصدرته: ان طائرة استطلاع اسرائيلية معادية اخترقت في العاشرة الا خمس دقائق مساء امس الاجواء اللبنانية من فوق البحر مقابل الناقورة، واتجهت شمالا حيث نفذت طيرانا دائريا فوق منطقتي بيروت والدامور، ثم غادرت في الحادية عشرة قبل منتصف الليل من فوق البحر باتجاه الاراضي المحتلة

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Liban : Un avion israélien survole Beyrouth, et l'armée détruit des obus trouvés à Tyr

Libnanews
31-10-2007

Selon la direction de l'orientation du commandement de l'armée, un avion israélien a hier soir pénétré dans l'espace aérien libanais vers les 00h10, survolant les côtes du Sud Liban jusqu'à la capitale Beyrouth, et achevant sa tournée vers les 01h45.

Ces vols de reconnaissance constituent une violation de la résolution 1701 du conseil de sécurité votée en août 2006, résolution qui a mis fin au conflit israélo-libanais.

Par ailleurs, l'armée a procédé aujourd'hui, entre 07h00 du matin et 14h00 de l'après-midi, à l'explosion d'obus sous l'eau dans la localité portuaire de Tyr au Sud Liban, après avoir découvert ces obus sur les côtes de Tyr, et l'impossibilité de les transporter ailleurs à cause du danger que cela pouvait occasionner.