2024-09-23 23:09:15
The situation is worrying. Paris called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday evening while the Israeli army is carrying out a massive campaign of attacks against Hezbollah which has left several hundred dead in Lebanon. Earlier in the day, many countries called for “de-escalation”.
“At this moment, I think of the Lebanese people, as the Israeli attacks have just caused hundreds of civilian casualties, including dozens of children. These attacks carried out on both sides of the blue line (the UN line between Israel and Lebanon, Editor’s note) and more in the region must be stopped immediately,” said Foreign Minister Jean-Noël at the meeting of the UN General Assembly. The minister arrived in New York on Monday evening for the “high-level week” of the United Nations General Assembly.
“France calls on the parties and those who support them to reduce and avoid a regional dispute which will be destructive for everyone, starting with citizens. This is why I ask for an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Lebanon to take place this week,” added the new head of French diplomacy who took office on Monday. “In Lebanon as elsewhere, France will be fully mobilized to solve the major conflicts that are affecting the international system. He will take action,” he assured him.
Washington is against a land occupation
US President Joe Biden is convinced that he is “working towards reduction”, welcoming Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan at the White House. “We are working on a reduction that will allow people to return to their homes safely,” he said. The main supporters of Israel, the United States has already urged “its citizens to leave Lebanon. China does the same.
Later in the day, the United States said it was against the attack on the ground in Lebanon, saying it wanted to submit “effective proposals” to reduce tension on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
“We have concrete ideas that we will discuss this week with our friends and partners,” said an American official in New York, while Israel’s attack on Hezbollah left 492 dead on Monday in southern Lebanon, including 35 children according to the authorities of this country, which experienced its deadliest day in almost a year of exchange of fire between the two parties.
Iraq said it wanted to organize an “emergency meeting” of representatives from Arab countries in New York to discuss the “returns of Zionist aggression” on Lebanon and “to work together to stop its criminal behavior.” “. For its part, Egypt also called on Monday “the international powers and the Security Council of the United Nations to intervene immediately” to put an end to the “dangerous Israeli escalation in Lebanon”.
The organization’s secretary general, Antonio Guterres, is also “deeply concerned” about the number of civilian casualties in Israeli attacks on Lebanon, his spokesman said.
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