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Lebanon: Israel seeks to justify aggression with false missile claims

by  News Agencies and ILH Staff
Published on  10-02-2018 00:00
Last modified: 11-03-2021 15:49
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Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil‎|PM Benjamin Netanyahu shows guided missile sites in Beirut during his address at the U.N. General Assembly last week

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Lebanon's foreign minister said on Monday that ‎Israel was trying to "justify another aggression" by ‎falsely alleging there are Hezbollah missile sites ‎near Beirut's international airport.‎

Addressing the U.N. General Assembly last week, ‎Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified ‎three locations near the airport where he said the ‎Shiite terrorist group was converting "inaccurate ‎projectiles" into precision-guided missiles.‎

Operations were being carried out with Iranian ‎funding and support and the facilities were being ‎built near residential areas to protect them, ‎knowingly placing Beirut's civilian population at ‎risk, Netanyahu said. ‎

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, speaking to ‎foreign ambassadors before taking them on a tour of ‎the area near the airport, said there were "many ‎statements affirming the possession of accurate ‎missiles by Hezbollah" but stressed that "this does ‎not mean that these missiles are present in the ‎vicinity of Beirut airport."‎

PM Benjamin Netanyahu shows guided missile sites in Beirut during his address at the U.N. General Assembly last week AP

Bassil accompanied the diplomats, who included ‎Russian and Iranian envoys, and journalists on a ‎tour of three sites near the airport, including the ‎grounds of a top division Lebanese football team, ‎Al-Ahed, which Israel identified as one of the ‎sites.‎

‎"We have invited the ambassadors on a tour to refute ‎Israel's reasons to violate Lebanese sovereignty and ‎attack it," Bassil told reporters.‎

‎"Netanyahu is committing state terrorism against ‎Lebanon, which is a peaceful nation that has never ‎attacked [anyone] and has always been forced to be ‎in a defensive position." ‎

Bassil, a political ally of Hezbollah, said Israel ‎‎aimed to "falsify facts concerning Lebanon and to ‎‎vocalize lies that carry the seeds of a threat that ‎‎does not frighten us."‎

Netanyahu had used the platform of the U.N. General ‎‎Assembly "to justify another aggression on a ‎‎sovereign country like Lebanon," he said.‎

In response, Netanyahu said later on Monday ‎Hezbollah had lied to the international community. ‎The diplomats were taken to the football pitch but ‎not to the underground site adjacent to it where the ‎missile factory was located, he said.‎

‎"Hezbollah is blatantly lying to the international ‎community with a futile tour led by the Lebanese ‎foreign minister. The ambassadors should ask ‎themselves why they waited three days until they ‎carried out the tour. Hezbollah regularly makes sure ‎to clean up sites that have been exposed," Netanyahu ‎said in a statement.‎

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