Israel Disrupts Lebanon... Impacting Tel Aviv and Haifa

Lebanon has filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, requesting condemnation of "Israeli cyber attacks on Lebanon," according to the National News Agency. The complaint is based on a report from the Lebanese Ministry of Communications, which confirmed that Israel is jamming the Global Positioning System (GPS) in Lebanon, leading to inaccuracies. The agency noted that these disruptions "endanger civil aviation services in the country and communication systems in vital facilities." The Israeli military is blocking some GPS signals amid the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and border confrontations with Hezbollah. However, these disruptions have also affected areas within Israel. Since the early days of the war, Israeli drivers using navigation apps such as Google Maps and Waze often find their locations displayed completely incorrectly. Sometimes, users in Tel Aviv appear to be in Cairo, while individuals in Haifa show as if they are in Beirut. It is noteworthy that Waze is a subsidiary of Google, and its app was developed in Israel. Last March, Lebanon announced that it would file an urgent complaint with the Security Council regarding the same issue, which it described at the time as an "violation of sovereignty" by Israel.