An Israeli position on the Lebanese side of the Blue Line demarcated by the United Nations, the de facto border, near the village of Aitaroun. (Credit: AFP/satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC on Nov. 25, 2025 and dated Nov. 18, 2025)
BEIRUT — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Friday that it had filed a complaint against Israel with the United Nations Security Council in response to the construction of two concrete walls inside Lebanese territory, south of the town of Yaroun, in Bint Jbeil district, which "constitutes a new and serious violation of Lebanese sovereignty by Israel."
According to the complaint filed by Lebanon's permanent mission in New York on instructions from the government, "Israel built two T-shaped concrete walls to the southwest and southeast of Yaroun, inside Lebanese territory recognized internationally."
The presence of these structures has been documented and denounced by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). "Lebanon asserts that the construction of these walls constitutes a further appropriation of Lebanese land and represents a flagrant violation of Resolution 1701 [2006] as well as the Declaration of Cessation of Hostilities [2024]," according to the statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Lebanon called on the U.N. "to act urgently to end the Israeli violations, force Israel to remove the two walls, and ensure immediate withdrawal south of the Blue Line in all still-occupied areas, including the five disputed border points."
The U.N. has also been appealed to in hopes of seeing Israel pressured into backing off from its practice of imposing so-called "buffer zones" inside its neighboring countries' territories.
Lebanon's letter to the U.N. also specifically mentions "guaranteeing the possibility for Lebanese civilians to return to their border villages," many of which are regularly fired upon by Israeli soldiers stationed at illegal outposts on Lebanese territory.
In its complaint, the Lebanese government reaffirmed its willingness open negotiations with Israel and its dedicated to fully implementing Resolution 1701, which stipulates Hezbollah's full military withdrawal from south of the Litani.
The objective, the text says, is to "allow the Lebanese state to fully resume the decision of war and peace, to restrict all weapons to its legitimate forces only, and to extend its sovereignty over the entire national territory."
Lebanon also presented to the U.N. an overview of the efforts made by the Lebanese Army as part of the national strategy to limit the possession of weapons to the state, notably its increased deployment south of the Litani in coordination with UNIFIL and the monitoring mechanisms.
President Joseph Aoun, announced on Nov. 21, on the eve of Independence Day, the army's commitment to ensure that the Lebanese Armed Forces alone control the region south of the Litani.
In a speech in which he presented his five-point initiative including "definitive" negotiations with Israel regarding the border, he also confirmed that "the Lebanese Army is ready to retake the points occupied on our southern border, and that the Lebanese state is ready to immediately submit to the cease-fire monitoring mechanism a precise timetable for such a recovery."
Aoun's remarks came as Lebanon and its authorities remain under increased Israeli-American pressure to disarm Hezbollah. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened earlier this week to resort to further escalation if the party-militia was not completely disarmed by the end of the year. The Lebanese Army's plan sets that date as the deadline for disarmament south of the Litani.
