Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned Israel’s airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, noting that the attack happened the day following Lebanon’s Independence Day.
President Aoun described it as “further proof that Israel disregards repeated calls to halt its assaults on Lebanon, refuses to implement international resolutions, and rejects all efforts and initiatives aimed at ending the escalation and restoring stability, not only to Lebanon but to the entire region.”
He added, “Lebanon, which has adhered to a ceasefire for nearly a year and has offered initiative after initiative, once again calls on the international community to assume its responsibility and intervene decisively and seriously to stop the attacks on Lebanon and its people, to prevent any deterioration that could reignite regional tensions, and to spare further bloodshed.”
The Israeli army carried out a precise raid earlier in the day, targeting Hezbollah’s “number two” operative, Haytham Tabatabai, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
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