The arrival hall at Beirut International Airport. (Credit: João Sousa/L'Orient Today)
BEIRUT — Lebanon will lodge a complaint against Israel at the UN Security Council accusing it of disrupting navigation systems and civil aviation around Beirut airport, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
Since the Gaza war erupted in October, Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in near-daily cross-border fighting.
Lebanon will "submit an urgent complaint to the UN Security Council about Israel ... disrupting navigation systems and civil aviation safety" in the skies around Beirut airport since the start of the Gaza war, the foreign ministry said in a statement on the official NNA news agency.
The ministry statement condemned "Israel's deliberate policy of jamming air and ground navigation systems, and deliberately disrupting devices receiving and transmitting signals."
It did not provide further details of the alleged disruption.
On Jan. 7, the departures and arrivals screens at Beirut airport came under cyberattack, with media airing footage showing anti-Hezbollah messages displayed instead and baggage conveyor belts that had ground to a halt.
Those behind the airport hack have yet to be unmasked, with Public Works and Transportation Minister Ali Hamieh admitting Lebanon lacks cybersecurity expertise.
Since the start of the Gaza war in October, 318 people, mainly Hezbollah fighters but also 52 civilians, have been killed in Lebanon, according to L'Orient Today's count.
In Israel, at least 10 soldiers and seven civilians have been killed in the cross-border exchanges.
BEIRUT — Lebanon will lodge a complaint against Israel at the UN Security Council accusing it of disrupting navigation systems and civil aviation around Beirut airport, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
Since the Gaza war erupted in October, Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in near-daily cross-border fighting.
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