Lebanon complains to the Security Council about Saturday's airstrikes.

Lebanese Foreign Minister Joseph Raji directed his country's mission to the United Nations on Sunday to file an "urgent complaint" with the UN and the Security Council against Israel regarding airstrikes carried out by Tel Aviv on Saturday, targeting an economic area in southern Lebanon, which resulted in the deaths and injuries of several civilians.

The Lebanese Foreign Ministry stated in a statement that Raji "gave his instructions to Lebanon's permanent mission to the United Nations in New York to submit an urgent complaint to the Security Council and the UN Secretary-General."

The statement added that "the complaint concerns the Israeli warplanes conducting airstrikes on a number of showrooms for bulldozers and excavators on the Al-Masila - Zahrani road in the Saida district, which led to the deaths and injuries of several civilians, and caused severe damage to the targeted commercial establishments."

Raji also requested that Lebanon's permanent mission in New York "disseminate the complaint letter and distribute it as an official document to all member states of the Security Council," according to the statement.

On Saturday, the Lebanese National News Agency reported that the Israeli army launched a series of airstrikes on showrooms selling bulldozers and excavators, resulting in one death and seven injuries, the destruction of more than 300 vehicles including bulldozers and excavators, and other material damages estimated in the millions of dollars.

The agency described this aggression as the "largest targeting a purely economic area since the end of the 66-day war," referring to the recent Israeli war on the country.

In October 2023, Israel launched an aggression against Lebanon, which escalated in September 2024 into a full-scale war that killed more than 4,000 people and injured about 17,000 others, in addition to 19 captives.

Despite reaching a ceasefire agreement in November 2024 between Hezbollah and Israel, the latter violated it more than 4,500 times, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries.

In defiance of the agreement, Israel occupies five Lebanese hills that it seized during the last war, in addition to other areas it has occupied for decades.