General Assembly Sixty-first session Agenda item 13 The situation in the Middle East Security Council Sixty-first year Identical letters dated 2 November 2006 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council On the instructions of my Government, I transmit to you herewith a statistical table of Israeli air, sea and land violations during the month of October 2006 (see annex). I should be grateful if you would have this letter and its annex circulated as a document of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly, under agenda item 13, and of the Security Council. (Signed) Caroline Ziade Chargé d’affaires a.i. Annex to the identical letters dated 2 November 2006 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council Statistical table showing Israeli violations during the month of October 2006 Air violations Sea violations Land violations Total violations Military acts of aggression Field violations Breaches Military jet Reconnaissance Helicopter Total Crossing of territorial waters, artillery fire and shooting of flares and firebombs over territorial waters Air raids, artillery shelling, shelling of military positions and important posts, attacks on and killing of civilians Gunfire, launching of firebombs, dropping of artillery missiles, infiltration and crossing of international borders Threats and displaying of weapons, bulldozing of soil, placing of barbed wire and setting up of installations inside Lebanese territory 11 31 1 43 4 — 32 6 85 Israeli violations, acts of aggression and activities from 23 to 31 October 2006 Air violations On 23 October 2006, between 1007 hours and 1150 hours, an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft overflew Aalma al-Chaab and circled between the town of Maarake and the southern border. It departed over Rmaich, having violated Lebanese airspace. On the same date, between 1214 hours and 1305 hours, four enemy Israeli warplanes overflew the Shab`a Farms and circled over regions of the South and the western Bekaa. Two of them headed north as far as Ras Beirut, and then south where the four met up again and headed north to Al-Batroun. They returned south over the sea off Al-Naqoura, having violated Lebanese airspace. On the same date, between 1412 hours and 1615 hours, an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft overflew Rmaich and circled over the region of the South. It departed over Aalma al-Chaab, having violated Lebanese airspace. On the same date, between 1607 hours and 1810 hours, an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft overflew the sea off Al-Naqoura and circled over the regions of the South. It departed over Al-Naqoura, having violated Lebanese airspace. On the same date, between 2045 hours and 2315 hours, an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft overflew the areas of Tebnine, Marjaayoun, Jezzine, Al-Naqoura, Al-Mansouri, Al-Nabatiye, Al-Khardali and the occupied Shab`a Farms, thereby violating Lebanese airspace. On 24 October 2006, between 1000 hours and 1145 hours, an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft overflew the areas of Al-Naqoura, Tebnine, Bent Jbail and Al-Nabatiye, thereby violating Lebanese airspace. On 25 October 2006, between 1435 hours and 1445 hours, two enemy Israeli helicopters overflew the Blue Line in the area of Rmaich — Aaita al-Chaab in Lebanese territory opposite the enemy’s Biranit outpost, thereby violating Lebanese airspace. On 26 October 2006, between 1010 hours and 1315 hours, an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft overflew the town of Rmaich and circled over the region of the South. It departed over the aforementioned town, having violated Lebanese airspace. On the same date, between 1300 hours and 1617 hours, an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft overflew the sea off Al-Biyada and circled over the southern regions. It departed over Aalma al-Chaab, having violated Lebanese airspace. On the same date, between 1626 hours and 1925 hours, an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft overflew the sea off Al-Biyada and circled over the southern regions. It departed over Aalma al-Chaab, having violated Lebanese airspace. On 27 October 2006, between 2029 hours and 2250 hours, an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft overflew the town of Kfar Kila, headed towards the Bekaa, and circled over the areas of Rayak and Baalbek. It departed over the area of Al-Ghaziye, having violated Lebanese airspace. On 31 October 2006, at 0900 hours, eight enemy Israeli aircraft overflew Rmaich in a northerly direction as follows: four aircraft circled over regions of the South. They left Lebanese airspace at 1005 hours over Rmaich. Four aircraft went as far as Chekka and circled between Chekka and Beirut. They left Lebanese airspace at 0945 hours over the sea off Al-Naqoura. They were met with ground-based anti-aircraft fire from the Palestinians in Al-Naima and from the Lebanese Army in Saff al-Hawa and Bent Jbail. Acts of aggression in the field On 24 October 2006, between 1720 hours and 1730 hours, 20 Israeli soldiers and five fighting vehicles entered Lebanese territory near the United Nations outpost in Al-Aabbassiye (in the occupied part of Ghajar). On the same date, between 1345 hours and 1400 hours, enemy Israeli forces strafed the area around their outpost in Ruwaysat al-Alam (inside the occupied Shab`a Farms) with medium-weapons fire. On 28 October 2006, between 1530 hours and 1730 hours, enemy Israeli forces proceeded to remove the metal fence from their Radar outpost (inside the occupied Shab`a Farms). On 30 October 2006, between 1245 hours and 1300 hours, Israeli enemy forces fired several rounds of light machine-gun fire from their Radar outpost inside the occupied Shab`a Farms in the direction of the area surrounding the aforementioned outpost. On the same date, between 2200 hours and 2230 hours, enemy Israeli forces fired eight flare shells from one of their outposts inside occupied Palestinian territory over the border between Lebanese and occupied Palestinian territory opposite the towns of Aaita al-Chaab and Rmaich. Israeli border activities On 30 October 2006, between 1000 hours and 1615 hours, enemy Israeli forces proceeded to erect a transmission tower at their helipad position inside occupied Palestinian territory across from the towns of Aaita al-Chaab and Rmaich. On the same date, between 1320 hours and 1350 hours, enemy Israeli forces set up an observation camera on a transmission tower inside Palestinian territory opposite the town of Dhaira. On the same date, between 1450 hours and 1520 hours, a trencher belonging to enemy Israeli forces engaged in digging activities along the border strip opposite the town of Yarine (west of Birket Risha), accompanied by an enemy patrol.   sss1 \* MERGEFORMAT A/61/555 sss2 \* MERGEFORMAT S/2006/860 sss1 \* MERGEFORMAT A/61/555 sss2 \* MERGEFORMAT S/2006/860 FooterJN \* MERGEFORMAT 06-59952 \* MERGEFORMAT 2 \* MERGEFORMAT 3 FooterJN \* MERGEFORMAT 06-59952 United Nations A/61/555–S/2006/860 General Assembly Security Council Distr.: General 2 November 2006 English Original: Arabic jobn \* MERGEFORMAT 06-59952 (E) 061106 061106 Barcode \* MERGEFORMAT *0659952*