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Kuwait Deplores Israeli Aggression against Lebanon

Kuwait on Monday condemned Sunday’s Israeli aggression against Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

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Israel Mobilizes Armored Vehicles in Kfar Shouba, Flies Drone over Baalbek

Israel mobilized armored vehicles on Monday in the vicinity of al-Summaka post facing the southern town of Kfar Shouba, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said no enemy patrols were meanwhile seen along the military line extending from Wazzani heights to Shebaa and Kfar Shouba's off the Blue Line.

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Israeli Night Raids Hit PFLP in Bekaa

Israel carried out night raids on Monday at military positions of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in the Eastern Mountain Range opposite the Bekaa town of Qusaya, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

NNA said that three explosions rocked central Bekaa shortly after midnight. The first blast was heard at 1:11 a.m. followed by two at 1:25 and 1:35.

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Report: Officials to Tackle Ratings Downgrade in Baabda Meeting

Lebanese officials are expected to hold an “expanded economic” meeting at Baabda Palace to discuss ways to contain the repercussions after the credit ratings downgrade by international agencies, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri agreed to hold the meeting on September 2 at the Presidential Palace, said the newspaper.

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Pompeo Calls for 'Avoiding Any Escalation' after Lebanon, Syria Flare-Up

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Sunday received a phone call from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the talks tackled “the developments of the past hours in the Lebanese and regional arenas,” Hariri’s office said.

“Pompeo stressed the need to avoid any escalation and to work with all parties concerned to prevent any form of deterioration,” Hariri’s office added in a statement.

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Geagea Urges Govt. to Discuss 'Presence of Strategic Decisions outside the State'

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday said he expresses his “full solidarity with our people” in Beirut’s southern suburbs after the Israeli drone explosion in the neighborhood of Mouawad.

Geagea also condemned “the repeated Israeli violations of our airspace and their sending of bomb-laden drones against targets in Lebanon.”

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Nasrallah Vows Response to Israeli Drones in Lebanon, Hizbullah Deaths in Syria

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday pledged that his group would retaliate against Israel from Lebanon should it kill any of its members in Syria, while warning that Hizbullah might shoot down any Israeli drone flying over Lebanon.

“If the Lebanese government wants pacification, it must tell the Americans to rein in Israel,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech marking the second anniversary of the ouster of militants and jihadists from the eastern border region.

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Lebanese Politicians React to Israeli Drone Attack

Lebanese officials, politicians and religious leaders on Sunday condemned the Israeli drone bombing in a Hizbullah stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs, as some of them stressed that the Lebanese state should be in charge of responding to the development.

“We strongly deplore the fall of the two Israeli aircraft over the southern suburbs and the blatant aggression against Lebanese sovereignty and Resolution 1701,” Interior Minister Raya al-Hassan tweeted.

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Bassil Files U.N. Complaint, Germanos Says State to Examine Hizbullah-Held Drone

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on Sunday asked Lebanon’s ambassador to the U.N. to file an urgent complaint against Israel with the U.N. Security Council over its “dangerous violation of Lebanese sovereignty,” in connection with the overnight drone blast in a Hizbullah stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Stressing Lebanon’s keenness on the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbullah, Bassil said Israel is meanwhile “committing daily and repeated violations that terrorize the Lebanese and threaten their safety.”

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Aoun Says Lebanon to Take 'Appropriate Measures' after Israeli Attack

President Michel Aoun on Sunday described the Israeli drone blast in Beirut’s southern suburbs as a “flagrant aggression against Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” noting that Lebanon will take the “appropriate measures” in response.

Calling the incident a “new chapter of the continued violations of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701,” Aoun said the development is an “additional indication about Israel’s hostile intentions and its attacks on stability and peace in Lebanon and the region.”

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