UNIFIL protests over Israeli warplanes violations

Gen. Lalit Mohan Tewari, the commander of the UN forces working in South Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced that he filed a strong protest to the Israeli leadership over the Israeli warplanes violation of the Lebanese airspace.

Following his meeting with the governor of Southern Lebanon Faisal al-Molawi on Tuesday, Gen. Tewari said that the violation of the Israeli warplanes to the Lebanese airspace is provocative for the Lebanese people.

He indicated that the UN secretary general Kofi Annan knows about these Israeli violations and is working to keep the situation calm and stable in south Lebanon and to prevent these Israeli violations.