The Council of Ministers yesterday expressed deep concern over the worsening security situation in South Lebanon, especially in Sidon, and called for an immediate end to clashes. Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja said the Cabinet made the statement while reviewing the latest developments at regional, Arab and international levels, including the situation in Palestine and Syria. The Cabinet also denounced Israeli atrocities in Jerusalem and stressed that all aggressive acts, land seizures, settlement building, excavations in the holy sites and attempts to Judaize the holy city are null and void under the international law and UN resolutions.
“The Cabinet called on the international community to shoulder its responsibility to stop such attacks and racist practices against the Palestinian people and the holy sites in Palestine,” Khoja said.
The Cabinet meeting, presided over by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, also condemned the continuing bloodshed, destruction and systematic displacement of the Syrian people while praising global efforts to contain the crisis, he said referring to the resolutions adopted at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.
Tensions had been rising in Lebanon since the Hezbollah sent militants into Syria to lead the recapture of a strategic border town by Bashar Assad’s forces.
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