"Israel Air Force warplanes flew across villages in southern Lebanon on Thursday, prompting a complaint from the UN envoy to Lebanon who said such illegal flights were increasing. Geir Pederson, the UN secretary general's representative in Lebanon, issued a statement saying Israel had violated Lebanese airspace six times on Thursday in flights that involved a total of nine aircraft. He expressed the United Nations' "concern at the recent increase in violations by Israeli aircraft of Lebanese airspace" and called on Israel to stop all such flights."