10/24/2024–|Last updated: 10/24/202403:23 PM (Mecca time)
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres once again called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and also called for a just peace in Sudan and Ukraine.
Guterres said today, Thursday, in a speech he delivered before the leaders of the BRICS countries during their summit held in the Russian city of Kazan, that the world needs to achieve a just peace in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Ukraine, and Sudan, in line with the United Nations Charter, international law, and the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly.
Guterres also called, in another speech today during the opening of an international conference in Paris to support Lebanon, for the necessity of respecting the sovereignty of states and protecting civilians, not targeting civilian infrastructure, and adhering to international law.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations said that Israel’s targeting of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) may amount to a war crime, and he denounced the continued violent Israeli bombing of populated areas in Lebanon.
He called for an immediate ceasefire, accompanied by significant measures to implement Security Council Resolutions 1559 of 2004 and 1701 of 2006.
After clashes with factions in Lebanon, including Hezbollah, which began after Israel launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Tel Aviv has since September 23 expanded the scope of the genocide to include most regions of Lebanon, including the capital, Beirut, via Air strikes, and a ground invasion began in its south.
The aggression against Lebanon resulted in a total of 2,574 dead and 12,000 wounded, including a large number of women and children, in addition to more than 1,340,000 displaced people. Most of the victims and displaced persons were recorded since September 23, according to Anatolia’s monitoring of official Lebanese data until Sunday evening.
