BEIRUT: Lebanon will file a complaint with the U.N. against Israel over its recent border shelling in which a Spanish peacekeeper was killed, a ministerial source told The Daily Star Friday.
The source said Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has contacted Lebanon’s Ambassador to the U.N. Nawaf Salam, requesting him to lodge a complaint against the Israeli shelling of south Lebanon sparked by a Hezbollah border ambush Wednesday.
Hezbollah killed at least two Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others when it fired a salvo of anti-tank missiles at an Israeli military convoy in the occupied Shebaa Farms in southern Lebanon.
The attack came in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike 10 days earlier on a Hezbollah convoy in Syria's Golan Heights which killed six of the group's fighters and an Iranian commander.
Spain on Thursday blamed Israel for firing the shells that killed its UNIFIL peacekeeper in southern Lebanon.
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