PARIS, (PIC)
French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said that his country requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting this week to discuss the situation in Lebanon after Israel escalated its attacks on southern and eastern Lebanon.
“I have requested that an emergency meeting of the Security Council be held on Lebanon this week,” Barrot told the UN General Assembly on Monday, calling on all sides to “avoid a regional conflagration that would be devastating for everyone, especially civilians.”
“I’m thinking of the Lebanese people as Israeli strikes have just killed hundreds of civilians, including dozens of children. These strikes conducted on both sides of the blue line, and in the region more broadly, must immediately end,” he said, referring to the demarcation line separating Lebanon from Israeli occupied lands.
The Israeli occupation army has intensified its attacks on Lebanon, with the Lebanese Ministry of Health announcing that the Israeli aggression on southern and eastern Lebanon claimed the lives of over 550 people, mostly civilians, and injured 1,835 others.
