Turk confirmed during a meeting with his students Algeria After this week’s simultaneous bombings of radio communications equipment belonging to For Hezbollah in Lebanon“Committing acts of violence intended to spread terror among civilians constitutes a war crime.”
“It is difficult to see how such attacks under these circumstances could comply with the basic principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution under International Humanitarian Law“
Turk called for an independent, comprehensive and transparent investigation, and for those who ordered and carried out these attacks to be held accountable.
The Under-Secretary-General also warned To the United Nations For political and peacebuilding affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, warned the Security Council on Friday that if the violence between Israel on the one hand and Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah group on the other continues, “we risk seeing a conflagration that would dwarf the destruction and suffering we have seen so far.”
The Israeli military said it carried out a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated neighborhood in southern Beirut on Friday.
It was the deadliest attack on Lebanon’s capital in years, with at least 14 others reported killed in the attack.
The spokesman said, Israeli army Daniel Hagari said that the strike on the southern suburb area in Beirut It targeted and killed Ibrahim Aqil, the commander of the Radwan Force, an elite Hezbollah force, in addition to 10 of his members. Hezbollah.
Lebanese health officials said at least 14 people were killed and 66 others injured there, with nine of the wounded in critical condition.
Earlier Friday, Hezbollah bombarded northern Israel with 140 rockets as the region awaited the retaliation promised by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in response to this week’s mass bombing of Hezbollah members’ pagers and walkie-talkies.
