Iran Press/ America: “This is a right that is enshrined in the UN Charter,” the Higher Defense Council said in a statement on Tuesday, emphasizing that “national unity remains the best weapon in the face of any aggression.”
The meeting was chaired by President Michel Aoun and attended by Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the ministers of defense, interior, foreign affairs and finance, and the heads of security agencies.
“The President underlined the need to defend Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity because it is a legitimate right,” the statement noted.
On Monday, Hariri called upon the United Nations Security Council to pressure Israel not to initiate any act of aggression against Lebanon.
“If Israel’s aggressive behaviour escalates, this will have dangerous repercussions for Lebanon and the whole region,” a statement by Hariri's office said.
Separately, President Aoun said Israel’s recent drone strikes in Lebanon amounts to “a declaration of war” against the Arab country, vowing that Lebanon will defend its sovereignty against Israeli aggression.
The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, said on Monday that Israel had sent two drones into Lebanon on a bombing mission on the weekend.
According to Hezbollah, the first drone had fallen on a building housing Hezbollah’s media office in the Dahieh suburb. The second drone, which appeared to have been sent by Israel to search for the first one, had crashed in an empty plot nearby after being detonated in the air, it added.
Following the drone raids, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general, vowed in a televised speech that fighters of the movement would counter any further violation of the Lebanese airspace by Israeli drones, warning the Tel Aviv regime to immediately halt such breaches.
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