Israeli attacks continue in southern Lebanon. The army of the Hebrew State announced on Tuesday, September 24, that it had struck again during the night “dozens of targets” of the Islamist movement Hezbollah “in many areas of southern Lebanon”The strikes come a day after a massive and deadly day of bombings that targeted 1,600 Hezbollah targets on Monday, leaving nearly 500 dead and 1,650 injured. The IDF also announced that more than “50 projectiles” were fired on Tuesday morning towards northern Israel, “the majority were intercepted” but buildings in the area were damaged. Follow our live stream.
The region “on the brink of total war”. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned Monday that the conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah threatens to plunge the Middle East into “total war”He called for a ceasefire between the two countries and also denounced the fact that civilians “pay an intolerable, unacceptable price”.
G7 fears escalation. The cycle of“actions and reactions risk increasing the spiral of violence and plunging the entire Middle East into a regional conflict with unimaginable consequences”assured the G7 states in a statement on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York. China, for its part, denounced “blind attacks” against civilians.
France requests an emergency meeting of the Security Council. Paris called for an immediate halt to the strikes “led on both sides” of the UN demarcation line between Israel and Lebanon. The new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, has asked “that an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Lebanon be held this week”during the General Assembly in New York.
The United States is working on a “de-escalation.” Ahead of a meeting with Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Washington, Biden said they would also discuss their “efforts to end the war in Gaza”The American leader also assured that he “was working on de-escalation” in Lebanon.