Salim: These Are Non-Negotiable Issues!

Prime Minister Nouf Salim wrote on the platform "X": "The actions carried out by Israel in Al-Mansouri, Zoutrat al-Sharqiya, Kfar Tabaneet, and other southern villages and towns—attacks, incursions, bulldozing operations, and systematic destruction of homes, residential neighborhoods, infrastructure, government offices, and places of worship—constitute a serious violation of principles and rules of international law and international humanitarian law.

As for justifying bulldozing and destruction operations under the pretext of the presence of military installations, this is contradicted by the nature of what is actually being targeted on the ground. Claiming that entire villages and towns—with their homes, neighborhoods, government facilities, public services, places of worship, and infrastructure—are all "military installations" is illogical and cannot serve as justification for their destruction, the displacement of their inhabitants, and preventing their return.

Lebanon's sovereignty, the security of its people, and the right of southerners to return to their land and rebuild their villages are not issues open to negotiation.