(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BEIRUT, Sept 8 (KUNA) -- Lebanon declared on Friday it would lodge a complaint with the UN Security Council against Israel's breach of its air space.
The Presidency said in a statement that the Supreme Defense Council, at a meeting today, charged Foreign Minister Jibran Bassil to address the UNSC with a protest for Israel's latest violation of the Lebanese air space.
Israeli warplanes, at dawn on Thursday, reportedly crossed the Lebanese air space to raid a military post near Hama, according to media reports.
The Presidency statement indicated that the council, during the session headed by President Michael Aoun, instructed the army to deploy infantrymen along the eastern borders.
Lebanese Army troops have recently carried out a wide-scale military operation, driving militants of the so-called Islamic State out of large swaths of land in the eastern frontier areas adjacent to Syria.
Earlier today, President Aoun called on the Lebanese to maintain solidarity as tribute to souls of "martyrs of the Lebanese Army who have fallen in defending Lebanon." Spirit of moderation and peace is stronger than the "terrorists and their radical thoughts," Aoun said during a somber ceremony held at the ministry of defense in homage to 10 army soldiers who had been killed by the IS militants.
Coffins of the slain soldiers were paraded in the ministry courtyard in front of the president, the premier and other senior officials as well as families of the soldiers.
Remains of the slain soldiers had been located during the recent army operation in the barren mountains on the borders. They had been killed and buried at a ravine by the extremists after kidnapping them during a fight in the border town of Ersal. (end) wsm.rk
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