DAILY SCOPE: Lebanon Files Compaint Against ’Israel’, Sayyed Nasrallah to Declare Stance in Speech
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NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES:
ASSAFIR:
Leader of "Hiram" Brigade Ordered Return of Convoy...Then Missiles Were Fired
...Thus "Israelis" fell in "Shebaa Ambush"
On the Seventh Day: King Salman Finishes His Government Changes
AN-NAHAR:
Jumblatt: Baabda Declaration Impossible Today
Al-AKHBAR:
Lebanon Files Complaint to Security Council and French Ambiguous Role
THE DAILYSTAR:
Lebanon to Lodge Complaint Over "Israel's" Deadly Border Shelling
Lebanese papers on Friday continued to focus on the repercussions of the Hizbullah retaliation, especially in light of a speech to be delivered today by the Hizbullah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Papers also touched on the instant changes in the new Saudi regime questioning what stands behind such changes and its impact on the future of the Kingdom.
Starting with as-Safir newspaper, the daily wrote "Once again Hizbullah demonstrates its capability to choose the right moment, place and target to retaliate, knowing what the results are from A to Z." The paper noted that "the Shebaa farms operation was calculated carefully on the military, security, political and even the legal level."
As-Safir further highlighted that according to "Israeli" military investigations, a convoy of the Givati Brigade including five vehicles was on its way to the military posts at the top of the Shebaa farms, when the convoy received orders from the ‘Hiram' Brigade to retreat but the 6 Hizbullah Cornet anti-tank missiles were launched and had hit the convoy."
Today, according to the paper, Sayyed Nasrallah will deliver a special speech in a ceremony to honor the Qunaitra martyrs, in presence of delegations representing Iran (the Chairman of Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's Majlis Alaeddin Boroujerdi) as well as Syria and Palestine to deliver a clear message that they support the latest stance of the Resistance; that any aggression on any of the resistance-axis ‘components' will require a direct retaliation [which will be carried out in the way the resistance sees as appropriate in place and time].
Touching on the new Saudi government, as-Safir pointed out that one week after acceding to the throne, King Salman bin Abdel Aziz accomplished major changes in the government, exceeding all expectations as he concluded changes on the political, security and administrative levels.
According to the paper, Saudi Arabia's new King on Thursday further cemented his hold on power, with a sweeping shakeup that saw two sons of the late King Abdullah fired, and the heads of intelligence and other key agencies replaced alongside a cabinet reshuffle.
"Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud issued a royal order today, relieving Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Chief of General Intelligence, of his post," the official Saudi Press Agency said.
A separate decree said Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a nephew of Abdullah, was removed from his posts as Secretary General of the National Security Council and adviser to the king. Two sons of the late monarch were also fired: Prince Mishaal, governor of the Mecca region, and Prince Turki, who governed the capital Riyadh, according to the decrees broadcast on Saudi television.
An-Nahar newspaper for its part wrote that "even though calm returned to the Lebanese-"Israeli" borders following the upheaval of the retaliation to "Israel's" aggression, yet the repercussions to this major action remain to broil inside and outside Lebanon."
It underscored that the Hizbullah Secretary General speech to be delivered today, Friday will be the clear stance on the operation and its dimensions, with a significance which is the presence of the Iranian official Bouroujardi, who assured that his country stands side by side with the resistance and supports it with all its might and capabilities.
On a related note, head of the Democratic Gathering MP Walid Jumblat lamented on Friday the Baabda Declaration, stressing that abiding by the dissociation policy is no longer possible.
"Implementing the declaration among the circumstances (the country is passing through) is impossible... We should be patient," Jumblat said in an interview published in an-Nahar newspaper.
The Baabda Declaration was unanimously adopted during a national dialogue session in June 2012. It calls for Lebanon to disassociate itself from regional crises, most notably the one in Syria.
Jumblatt reiterated that Hizbullah retaliated to the "Israeli" airstrike that targeted its resistance fighters inside the Golan's Quneitra earlier this month from a zone that is occupied by "Israel" and an area that is awaiting to be demarcated.
"Hizbullah didn't violate the United Nations Security Council resolution 1701," Jumblat noted, and played down any escalation between "Israel" and Lebanon. However, he pointed out that the "Israeli craziness and arrogance are unpredictable."
Reiterating the right to resist, Minister Mohammad Fneish told al-Johouriya newspaper "What the resistance did was a legitimate right practiced from within a Lebanese occupied territory; since the Shebaa farms and with Lebanese consensus is an occupied land. Therefore, it is our right to confront an occupation that sits on our land, this should be clear to all."
Accentuating the same concept, Minister of Culture Roni Orayji told the daily as well "The resistance retaliated to the "Israeli" aggression in Qunaitra from the Shebaa farms, which is a Lebanese occupied land. [The resistance] practiced its right in responding to an aggression within the accepted norms, at the time the "Israeli" response to the retaliation was a haphazard bombardment in which a UNIFIL peacekeeper of the Spanish battalion was killed, and this is an aggression against Lebanon."
Furthermore, Lebanon will file a complaint at the United Nations over the Israeli shelling on Lebanese territories and the death of a Spanish peacekeeper with the U.N. force in southern Lebanon, said Lebanese daily al-Akhbar.
According to the report published on Friday, Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil asked Nawaf Salam, Lebanon's Permanent Representative to the U.N., to file the complaint.
"The complaint is to condemn the "Israeli" raids on the South and the death of the Spaniard," al-Akhbar quoted Bassil as saying.
Also on this issue, the Daily Star quoted a ministerial source as saying that Lebanon will file a complaint with the UN against "Israel" over its recent border shelling in which a Spanish peacekeeper was killed. The source said Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has contacted Lebanon's Ambassador to the UN Nawaf Salam, requesting him to lodge a complaint against the "Israeli" shelling of south Lebanon sparked by a Hizbullah border ambush Wednesday.
Source: al-Ahed news
