The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, based on a proposal from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the request of the Council of Ministers, instructed Lebanon's permanent mission to the United Nations in New York to "file an urgent complaint to the Security Council regarding Israel's violations of Lebanese sovereignty through interference with navigation systems and the safety of civil aviation in the airspace of Rafic Hariri International Airport – Beirut, since the onset of the war on Gaza."
The Ministry stated in a release that "this complaint is part of an ongoing effort to document Israeli breaches and violations and follows a series of previous complaints. Lebanon condemns these reckless Israeli actions, which disregard the serious consequences on civil aviation safety and the lives of thousands of civilian passengers daily, in a blatant violation of the laws and regulations upheld by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), as well as the International Civil Aviation Convention signed in Chicago in 1944, in addition to international humanitarian law."
