Iran calls on UNSC to act on Israel’s ‘violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty’
Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, has urged the UN Security Council to take “immediate action” after Israel’s attack on Beirut, which he described as a “blatant violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty” and international law.
Iravani said that Israel is “desperate” to “divert international attention from the root causes of the current situation”, which is Israel’s war on Gaza.
“The occupying regime cannot deny its responsibility for the ongoing atrocities and barbaric massacres against innocent people in Gaza,” he wrote.
Israel has said the attack on Beirut, which Lebanese officials said killed a woman and two children, targeted Hezbollah commander Muhsin Shukr.
Search for survivors after Israel strikes Beirut apartment building
Lebanese civil defence workers search through the debris after the top floors of an eight-storey building were destroyed
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said a woman, a boy and a girl were killed and 74 people were wounded in the attack
Half of the targeted buildings in the densely populated neighbourhood collapsed and a nearby hospital suffered minor damages from the Israeli air strike
