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Joint Statement by the #UnitedStates, #Australia, #Canada, #EuropeanUnion, #France, #Germany, #Italy, #Japan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the #UnitedKingdom, #Qatar
The situation between #Lebanon and #Israel since October 8th, 2023 is intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation.
Thus we call for an immediate 21 day ceasefire across the #Lebanon-Israel border #gaza
Joint Statement by the United States, Australia, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Qatar | The White House
The situation between Lebanon and Israel since October 8th, 2023 is intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation. ThisThe White House
One of the pagers detonated by #Israel in #Lebanon was in a paediatrician's examining room while a 10-day old baby was lying on the examining table
https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/doctors-describe-the-horror-of-israels-pager-attack-in-lebanon/
Doctors Describe the Horror of Israel’s Pager Attack in Lebanon - New Lines Magazine
Surgeons and others detail gruesome injuries; many of the thousands of victims were blinded, with fingers severedEdmund Bower (New Lines Magazine)
Analysis: Israel is breaking international law with its attacks on Lebanon just as it is in Palestine.
"Areas across Lebanon have come under the worst Israeli bombardment in decades, & legal experts are accusing Israel of violating international law.
"Here’s why":
#IsraeliWarCrimes #Lebanon #Gaza #BDS .
Has Israel broken international law with its attacks on Lebanon?
Lebanon has come under the worst Israeli bombardment in decades and experts accuse Israel of violating international lawAl Jazeera
Analysis: "Israel's Bloodbath in Lebanon: largest attack on Lebanon since 2006 invasion"
"The roads out of the south were jammed on Monday afternoon as people attempted to flee Israel’s bombs. The Associated Press called it the biggest exodus since 2006.”
"Schools and universities have closed throughout the country and Lebanese authorities are opening up educational facilities to shelter the displaced."
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bloodbath-lebanon-hezbollah
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"When you realize that there are only two peaces possible in this case or any other: everyone agreeing to forget, or so many people being dead that there is no one left to remember, then you realize that it is not a question of who did what to whom first. It is that the most unforgiveable thing is the next unforgettable one."
"As with all things in this conflict, to criticize the latest act of unforgettable violence is always to provoke the rejoinder: this is but a retaliation for the last one. We did not start this, but we will finish it."
~ Timothy Burke
#Israel #Mossad #Lebanon #Hezbollah
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https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-news-unforgettable-in-every-way
"People across Lebanon were hit with a second round of handheld device explosions on Wednesday, wounding over 450 people as hospitals are already overwhelmed with the scores of people injured across the country in a similar attack orchestrated by Israel the day before.
At least 14 people were killed by a wave of walkie talkie explosions, according to an initial count by Lebanon’s health ministry shortly after the attack."
~ Sharon Zhang
700 Wounded, 25 Dead After Lebanon Hit With Second Wave of Device Explosions
The attacks, which humanitarian groups noted are likely war crimes, are an escalation by Israel.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
"Instead, the attack has been branded indiscriminate in Europe and elsewhere because, inevitably, not every Hezbollah operative was alone when their pager exploded – some were close to civilians, including children – and because the fear it’s left behind in Lebanon does not discriminate. Ordinary people doing ordinary things in Beirut or Sidon now contend with a new anxiety, nervous around anyone with an electronic device who might just be a member of Hezbollah."
"They probably thought the world would applaud. The Israeli planners behind one of the most spectacular intelligence actions in the country’s history – targeting thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and beyond by exploding the pagers in their pockets – would certainly have expected an ovation for the sheer audaciousness of it."
~Jonathan Freedland
#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #pagers
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/20/pager-bombing-hezbollah-israel-safer-diplomacy
The pager bombing of Hezbollah was jaw-dropping. Will it make Israel safer? Not for long
Reliance on military prowess has become a way of avoiding the path the country must now take: diplomacy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan FreedlandJonathan Freedland (The Guardian)
"It was not purely the scale of the attack – substantial though it was – that caused shock and disbelief among the Lebanese, but the pervasiveness of it. Doctors tossed away their pagers, wedding planners dispensed with their walkie-talkies, and parents disconnected their baby monitors."
~ Naji Bakhti
#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #pagers
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/20/device-bombs-beirut-lebanon-israel-hezbollah
The device bombs were in our living rooms, in our pockets, in our faces. Beirut is terrified
The impact of the latest outrage in Lebanon is devastating for the citizens of a country caught between Israel and Hezbollah, says author Naji BakhtiNaji Bakhti (The Guardian)
"You have the shock of Tuesday, when all of these pagers exploded, killing 12 people, injuring close to 3,000, and then, yesterday, more explosions in walkie-talkies and not clear what other electronic devices. The total, 37 dead, what, something like 3,500 people injured."
~ Amy Goodman
#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #pagers
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https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/19/lebanon
Lebanon: 37 Dead, 3,400+ Injured in Wave of Explosions in Electronic Devices Booby-Trapped by Israel
We get an update from Beirut, after at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded in Lebanon on Wednesday when walkie-talkie radios across the country exploded without warning, the second day of an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezboll…Democracy Now!
First legal view I’ve seen on the pager attacks:
“Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said booby-traps are banned under international law. “Weaponizing an object used by civilians is strictly prohibited,” she said.”
#Lebanon #Pagers #hezbollah #Israel
Second wave of explosions hits Lebanon a day after pager attack
Israel's defense minister declares a “new phase” of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices.JOHNSON LAI (AP News)
Taiwanese and Hungarian firms deny making Hezbollah pagers
A source close to Hezbollah previously said the devices appear to have been 'sabotaged at source.'The Japan Times
Taiwan 'paying great attention' to Hezbollah pager explosions
Taiwan-based Gold Apollo said it did not manufacture the devices used in the attack in Lebanon.The Japan Times
Walkie-talkies in Lebanon blasts were discontinued a decade ago
Thousands of electronic devices, including pagers and walkie-talkies, exploded over the last two days, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 3,000.The Japan Times