Lahoud: Israel continues human rights violations

Lebanese President Emil Lahoud has stressed that any just and comprehensive solution for the region's question should be based on the need of implementing international legitimacy resolutions and releasing all Lebanese and Arab detainees from the Israeli jails.

During his meeting on Tuesday with a delegation representing daughters of detainees and prisoners in the Israeli jails, accompanied by Lebanese parliamentarian Muhammad Barjawi, the Lebanese president said that Israel violates international norms and charters and continues its violations of human rights in an unprecedented way, adding that Israel is determinant to keep all Lebanese prisoners in its jails as a means of pressure to use in its war against Lebanon and the Arabs.

The delegation delivered President Lahoud a memorandum stressing that keeping the Lebanese detainees in the Israeli jails has no humanitarian, legal or political justifications. And this makes it imperative for the Israeli authorities to release them to reveal the fate of the Lebanese missing and to hand over the corpses of the "Lebanese martyrs."

The memorandum called on President Lahoud in his capacity as the chairperson of the current session of the Arab summit to form a special delegation to be delegated to several Arab and foreign states in order to debate the issue of the Lebanese prisoners in the Israeli jails before international and humanitarian circles, so as to form a fact finding commission to investigate "the criminal acts conducted against the Lebanese people by the Israeli forces during its occupation of south Lebanon."