A Hezbollah Cabinet minister on Tuesday said the Lebanese government may attempt to break the Israeli naval and air blockade of Lebanon by calling on ships and aircraft to travel to Lebanese ports without prior Israeli approval. The government has condemned the blockade, saying it violates the U.N. cease-fire resolution, and the foreign minister Tuesday called on the international community to force Israel to end the blockade. The Cabinet met late Monday but did not publicly challenge to the blockade, although it called the siege one of Israel's «terrorist practices,» according to a report of the Associated Press. «Entry to Lebanon by sea and from air is a matter of sovereignty,» Tarrad Hamadeh, minister of Labor said on Hezbollah television. Hamadeh, one of two Hezbollah Cabinet ministers, said the Lebanese «must have to be free to enter their country at will. We cannot accept the siege and blackmail.»
