BEIRUT: Lebanon will file a complaint to the United Nations Security Council against building of walls by Israel in south Lebanon, the Lebanese presidency said on Saturday.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said on Friday that the Israeli army had built walls in south Lebanon near the UN-demarcated Blue Line, the de facto border.

When asked about the accusation, the Israeli military said “the wall does not cross the Blue Line”.

President Joseph Aoun’s office said he had instructed officials “to file an urgent complaint to the United Nations Security Council against Israel for constructing a concrete wall on Lebanon’s southern border exceeding the Blue Line”.

He requested that the complaint “be accompanied by reports issued by the United Nations refuting the Israeli denial of the wall’s construction”.

According to Unifil, last month peacekeepers surveyed a concrete T-wall erected by the Israeli army southwest of Yaroun and found that it “crossed the Blue Line, rendering more than 4,000 square metres of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the Lebanese people”.

A survey this month of additional construction showed “a section of wall southeast of Yaroun also crossed the Blue Line”, the statement added, calling it a violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty.

The force said it had informed the Israeli army of the findings and requested it move the wall.

A ceasefire in November last year sought to end more than a year of hostilities, including two months of all-out conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Published in Dawn, November 16th, 2025