Lebanon to file grievance towards Israel for wall inside its territory

Lebanon’s president requested the nation’s international minister Saturday (November 15, 2025) to work on submitting a grievance towards Israel for constructing a wall inside Lebanese territory.

A press release launched by President Joseph Aoun’s workplace mentioned he has requested the international minister to incorporate within the grievance assertion issued by the United Nations peacekeeping power often known as UNIFIL that’s deployed alongside the border with Israel.

On Friday (November 14), UNIFIL mentioned in a press release that the Israeli military erected a wall southwest of the Lebanese village of Yaroun.

UNIFIL mentioned the wall crossed the border line, rendering greater than 4,000 sq. metres (43,000 sq. ft) of Lebanese territory “inaccessible to the Lebanese individuals.”

UNIFIL mentioned it has knowledgeable the Israeli military of its findings and requested that they take away the wall.

It mentioned that building of the wall violates the UN Security Council decision that ended that 14-month Israel-Hezbollah battle with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire reached in November final 12 months. UNIFIL added that the wall violates “Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

The Israeli navy mentioned the wall, whose building started in 2022, is a part of a broader plan for reinforcements alongside the border.

It mentioned that for the reason that begin of the battle the Israeli military has been advancing a sequence of measures, together with reinforcing the bodily barrier alongside the northern border.

The Israeli military mentioned it must be emphasised that the wall doesn’t cross the Blue Line, the boundary between Lebanon and Israel drawn up by the UN which UNIFIL screens and patrols.

The Israel-Hezbollah battle began when Hezbollah started firing rockets throughout the border on October 8, 2023, a day after a lethal Hamas-led incursion into southern Israel sparked the battle in Gaza.

Israel responded with shelling and airstrikes in Lebanon, and the 2 sides turned locked in an escalating battle that turned a full-blown battle in late September 2024.