“President Michel Sleiman strongly denounced the Israeli [air strike] on Naameh and tasked caretaker Foreign Minister [Adnan Mansour] to file a complaint over the attack to the United Nations Security Council,” a statement released by Baabda Palace, said.

Early Friday, Israeli planes pounded an area in southern Beirut near a base belonging to a Palestinian faction.

A source with the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Israeli jets fired a missile at a valley in Naameh, an area some 15 kilometers south of Beirut.

The missile struck just meters from the entrance to one of a series of underground tunnels belonging to the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command in the valley.

The Lebanese army, in a statement, said an Israeli jet violated Lebanon’s sovereignty at 4 a.m., firing a missile at sea level “in the direction of tunnels in Naameh where a base belonging to a Palestinian organization is located that left a five-meter deep crevice without any loss of life or material damage.”

The Army added that soldiers deployed in the area took appropriate defensive measures in response.

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