BEIRUT: Lawmakers from the Future Movement-led March 14 coalition warned Thursday they would seek U.N. protection against cross-border Syrian incursions unless the Lebanese Army acts.

Akkar MP Khaled Daher called on the "government to do its duty and the Lebanese Army to defend its territory and citizens.”

“Otherwise, we will call for the United Nations to protect our people from crimes [being] committed against them by the Syrian regime,” Daher told a news conference in Tripoli, north Lebanon.

Kataeb MP Nadim Gemayel also demanded Thursday that Lebanon file a formal complaint with the U.N. Security Council over Syrian incursions into northern and eastern border towns and for the killings of Lebanese citizens.

“While we deplore the government's performance in defending Lebanon and its sovereignty ... we call on it to take immediate action to protect Lebanese civilians on the border and file an urgent complaint with the [U.N.] Security Council to condemn the targeting of innocent Lebanese and violations of national sovereignty,” Gemayel said in a statement.

He was referring to Tuesday’s Syrian army incursion into the northern border area of Wadi Khaled in which troops shot and killed three Lebanese people.

“How can this government not see what all Lebanese see in terms of Syrian military violations of the Lebanese border, be it in the Bekaa Valley or in Akkar,” Gemayel asked.

Meanwhile, Future Movement MP Khaled Zahraman described as a “blatant assault” the recent Syrian army incursion that left three Lebanese citizens killed.