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UN warns of risk of ‘imminent catastrophe’ in Middle East

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Special Coordinator United Nations (UN) Lebanon’s Jeanine Hennis-Plaschaert warned Sunday that Middle East ‘on the brink of imminent catastrophe’ following the recent escalation of violence between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.

“With the region on the brink of imminent catastrophe, it cannot be overemphasized: THERE IS NO military solution that would provide greater security to either side,” the person in charge said in a brief statement posted on the official account of the X. UN Mission in Lebanon.

Hennis-Plasschaert expressed concern after Israel conducted bombing of the southern suburbs of Beirut which killed at least 45 people, including more than a dozen senior Hezbollah officials such as Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wahbi, who led the operations of Radwan’s elite forces.

The Israeli bombing in the capital’s Dahye area comes after two waves of simultaneous explosions in the middle of last week targeted thousands of communications devices carried by members of Hezbollah They killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 in different parts of Lebanon.

The attacks were followed by Israeli bombing of dozens of villages in southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah responded by firing dozens of shells into northern Israel, where it said Sunday it had bombed an airbase and a weapons factory in the Lebanon region. Haifa.

This escalation of violence raised alarm bells about the possible outbreak of open war in the Middle East, although Hezbollah has repeatedly repeated that it does not want to widen the conflict and that its daily attacks on northern Israel will cease if a ceasefire is reached in Syria and the Gaza Strip.

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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