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26-09-2024
BEIRUT/ GAZA STRIP/ NEW YORK: Tens of thousands of people flee southern Lebanon with little idea where to find safety as intense Israeli bombardment across Lebanon kills at least 569 people, including 50 children, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Hezbollah confirmed that senior leader Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi was killed on Tuesday, hours after Israel claimed it killed a top commander in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which left six people dead.
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, as several world leaders condemn Israeli aggression in their UN General Assembly addresses.
At least 41,467 people have been killed and 95,921 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 was at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.
Protesters gathered in US cities, including Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC, on Tuesday to demonstrate against US support for Israel in the face of its mounting aggression in Gaza and Lebanon.
Antiwar activists chanting slogans including “Hands off the Middle East” and “Free Palestine” demanded an arms embargo against the US ally.
Joe Biden gave his final address as US president at the UN General Assembly in New York, while Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon became the focus of world leaders’ speeches.
Leaders from various nations condemned the violence and called for a cessation of hostilities. As the wars in the region continue, the humanitarian crisis deepens, with thousands of people displaced and infrastructure damaged. Media reports from New York.
Agnes Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, told media that Israel is committing “violation of international law after violation”.
“Beginning with the indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, all the way to the buffer zone that has been established in Gaza over the last few months, to the killings of the humanitarian workers, to the killings of journalists,” she said.
“Many governments continue to arm Israel in contradiction with what they may say,” she added.
“In particular, the United States has enabled Israel to continue in the same direction.”
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s tone at the UN General Assembly could be described as moderate.
He spoke about the need to seek opportunity, rather than to concentrate on perceived threats.
He implied that he does not want to see any further regionalization of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, making particular reference to what is happening in Lebanon and the root cause of all of that: Israel’s war on Gaza. And he made some strong criticisms of Israel’s actions.
He spoke as well about the possibility of resuscitating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iranian nuclear deal, on condition that the other parties in that accord meet their commitments.
Surveillance video captured the massive explosion from an Israeli strike on a building in Lebanon’s Saadiyat, just south of the capital Beirut.
Initial reports say Israel allegedly targeted a Hezbollah weapons warehouse.
It’s a very tense situation here in Beirut this evening.
It’s got a bit calmer over the last few hours as the evening has gone on, there is a sort of cautious calm. (Int’l News Desk)
