What to remember from Tuesday, September 24

After several days of Israeli bombings in Lebanon, the UN Security Council has decided to hold an extraordinary meeting scheduled for Wednesday.

An emergency update on the situation in Lebanon. Following a dark day in the country, marked by intense Israeli bombardments that left more than 500 dead and tens of thousands internally displaced, the UN Security Council announced on Tuesday, September 24, that an extraordinary meeting on the escalation of war in Lebanon will be held on Wednesday. “Lebanon is on the brink of the abyss”had earlier warned UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres before the General Assembly in New York, fearing that the country could become “another Gaza”. Here are today’s developments on the war front between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah.

Facing the UN, Joe Biden warned against a “generalized war” in Lebanon

In his final address to the United Nations General Assembly, the American president called for a rapid resolution to the war that is shaking the Middle East. “A general war is in no one’s interest. Even if the situation escalates, a diplomatic solution is still possible.”he assured. “In fact, this remains the only possible path to lasting security that will allow people from both countries to return safely to their homes across the border.”he continued.

Benjamin Netanyahu announced new strikes

The Israeli prime minister announced that Israel would continue to strike Hezbollah in Lebanon, as cross-border exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and the Islamist movement continued. “We will continue to strike Hezbollah. And I say to the Lebanese people: our war is not against you, our war is against Hezbollah.”he said in a video released by his office. In the wake of this, Israel announced that a new wave of strikes “massive” had been carried out on targets of the Islamist movement. This statement by Benjamin Netanyahu comes the day after Israeli strikes on Lebanon, which left 558 dead on Monday, including 50 children and 94 women.

Hezbollah says it hits military base in northern Israel

The pro-Iranian organization said it targeted an Israeli military base near Safed in northern Israel with two salvos of 90 rockets in total. “In defense of Lebanon and its people”, Hezbollah fighters targeted “Dado’s base”, near Safed in northern Israel, the headquarters of the Israeli army’s Northern Command, with a total of 90 rockets, the powerful pro-Iranian group said in two statements. For its part, the Israeli army reported air raids in the area, without confirming that a base had been targeted.

Israeli strike kills six people including Hezbollah official in Beirut

Six people were killed in an Israeli raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. In a statement, it also reported “15 injured” and evokes a balance sheet “preliminary”The Israeli army, for its part, claimed to have “eliminated” a senior official of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, Ibrahim Mohammed Kobeissi. The IDF also struck on the night of Monday to Tuesday “dozens of targets” of the Islamist movement Hezbollah “in many areas of southern Lebanon.”

The G7 also advocated de-escalation

“No country has anything to gain” to an intensification of the conflict in the Middle East, the member countries of the G7 economic group have judged. 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”the group of rich Western countries believes in a statement. If the United States assures “working on de-escalation” In Lebanon, China said “deeply shocked” by the number of victims after the Israeli strikes.