BEIRUT - The Lebanese Mission to the United Nations on Monday filed two complaints to the UN Security Council against Israel regarding the repeated attacks on the positions of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the impact of Israeli military actions on the Lebanese education sector.

The first complaint, according to the Lebanese National News Agency, considered Israel's request for the peacekeeping forces to evacuate their positions as "illegitimate".

Lebanon stressed that "the Israeli attacks on UNIFIL are a dangerous precedent and a flagrant violation of international law and Security Council Resolution 1701".

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In the complaint, Lebanon demanded "a firm and strict stance" be taken against these attacks, stressing "the need to hold Israel accountable for these violations and prevent it from repeating them, to avoid casualties among UNIFIL forces, and to ensure UNIFIL's ability to continue fulfilling its obligations stipulated in its mandate".

Five UNIFIL personnel were injured in recent days during battles between the Israeli army and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where UNIFIL accused the Israeli army of "repeatedly" firing at its positions.

The Lebanese Mission to the United Nations also submitted a second complaint regarding the Israeli attacks' impact on the education sector in Lebanon.

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In the complaint, Lebanon urged the UN Security Council to intervene urgently and effectively to stop the ongoing Israeli "aggression" on its territory, which it said had deprived nearly 1.4 million students of their basic right to education.

The complaint called on the international community to "move immediately to ensure the cessation of aggression and the protection of the right to education as a fundamental pillar for building a stable and secure future for the country".

Clashes in S. Lebanon

Hezbollah said Monday that it clashed or has been clashing with Israeli forces in several border villages in southern Lebanon.

"The Islamic Resistance fighters remain engaged in violent clashes with the Israeli enemy forces since afternoon in the village of Aita al-Shaab, using various types of machine guns, rockets, and artillery shells. The clashes are still ongoing," it said in a statement.

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The Shi’ite group announced later in another statement targeting with guided missiles three Israeli Merkava tanks on the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab, saying, "The tanks were seen burning with those inside them, with flames rising from them."

In other separate statements, the group said it had confronted Israeli forces attempting to infiltrate the outskirts of the village of Markaba, the Labbouneh axis, and the plain of Khallet Wardeh in southern Lebanon.

It also claimed to have fired rockets at several military bases, barracks, and settlements in northern and central Israel, including Haifa, Netanya, and Karmiel, among others.

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Meanwhile, the Lebanese army reported Monday that it monitored in the afternoon the launch of several drones and about 100 surface-to-surface missiles from southern Lebanon toward northern Israel.

Lebanese military sources told Xinhua that Israeli warplanes on Monday carried out about 25 raids on southern Lebanon and 18 more in eastern Lebanon.

Also on Monday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said Israeli airstrikes killed three people and injured 84 others across Lebanon on Sunday, bringing the death toll since the beginning of the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict on Oct 8, 2023, to 2,309 and injuries to 10,782.

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Since Sept 23, the Israeli army has been launching an unprecedented, intensive air attack on Lebanon in a dangerous escalation with Hezbollah. In early October, the army began what it said was a "limited" ground campaign, targeting Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon.