Lebanese leaders vow to push back against Israeli border wall

Lebanon’s top three political leaders meet to discuss ways to oppose what they call Israel’s alleged encroachment into Lebanese territory with the building of an Israeli border wall between the two countries.

The three — President Michel Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabil Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri — discuss Israel’s “insistence on building a concrete wall across the southern border, and at points along the blue line,” the recognized international border between the two countries.

They also discuss overlapping claims to waters off the coast of both countries where natural gas reserves are believed to be located.

The three conclude the meeting with a decision to pursue action against Israel’s border fence in international forums, which they say will be built inside territory claimed by Lebanon in some places.