Israel only knows one tactic, level everything to the ground.
Israeli air strikes leave Lebanese village Naqoura in ruins – Over 50 civilians dead in six months
Reporting from the bombed-out ruins of the southern Lebanese border village of Naqoura, Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem says the destruction is similar to many other villages located along the border with Israel.
“There are hundreds of destroyed houses,” Hashem says of the attacks by Israel that have levelled entire neighbourhoods in numerous villages and forced their inhabitants to flee for safety.
Israeli military claims to hit Hezbollah post in Lebanon
Israeli fighter jets carried out overnight strikes on a Hezbollah post and other military infrastructure in the Lebanese border towns of Khiam and Kafr Kila.
Footage posted by Israel’s military on Telegram appears to show two of the aerial strikes with one levelling a building.
More Western hypocrisy on display.
UN Security Council fails to condemn strike on Iran in Syria
The United States, Britain and France opposed a Russian-drafted UN Security Council statement that would have condemned an attack on Iran’s embassy compound in Syria.
Diplomats said the US, backed by France and Britain, told council colleagues many of the facts of what happened on Monday in Damascus remained unclear, and there was no consensus among council members during a meeting on Tuesday.
“This serves as a clear illustration of the double standards employed by the Western ‘troika’ and their actual, rather than declarative, approach to legality and order in the international context,” Russia’s deputy UN ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said in a post on X.
The UN Security Council has issued statements in the past condemning attacks on diplomatic premises. The European Union on Wednesday condemned the strike – saying the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises and personnel must be respected – and called on countries to show restraint.
Following the UN Security Council meeting on April 2nd regarding the Israeli attack on the consular section of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Russia has prepared a draft Security Council Press statement with a standard text traditionally used in such cases.
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US blackmailing the UN...
‘High time now’ for the state of Palestine at the United Nations
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN ambassador, says 140 countries recognise the state of Palestine and “we believe it is high time now for our state to become a full member at the United Nations”.
Mansour said he expects the UN Security Council to vote on the Palestinian request for full UN membership at its monthly meeting on the Middle East, being held at ministerial level on April 18.
He said it is the Palestinians’ “natural and legal right” to seek full UN membership and declared “Let the process unfold”.
But US Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood noted the US Congress adopted legislation “that in essence says that if the UNSC approves full membership for the Palestinians outside of a bilateral agreement between Israel and the Palestinians … [US] funding would be cut off to the UN system”.
“We’re bound by US laws. So our hope is that they don’t pursue that. But that’s up to them,” said Wood.
