Lebanon lodges complaint with UN over Israel's device attack on Hezbollah

Lebanon on Wednesday officially filed a complaint with the United Nations over Israel’s deadly device attack that killed several Hezbollah members as it exploded their pagers in September.

Lodging a complaint with the UN’s International Labour Organization, Lebanese Labor Minister Mustafa Bayram claimed the attack was an “egregious war against humanity, against technology, against work.”

“It’s a very dangerous precedent,” he told journalists in the Swiss city at an event organized by the UN correspondents’ association ACANU.

The device attack of September

The device attacks were a catalyst for the Israel-Hezbollah conflict which has turned deadly with the country launching attacks in several parts of Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah operatives. The attacks followed the death of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah along with other top leaders of the terrorist group.

Although Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack, Lebanon says it is “widely accepted internationally… that Israel was behind this heinous act.”

“In a few minutes, more than 4,000 civilians fell, between martyrs and injured and maimed,” Bayram said.

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“We are in a situation where ordinary objects, objects you use in daily life, become dangerous and lethal. If left unchecked, this crime could become normalized,” he says, adding that filing the complaint is meant “to prevent such crimes from happening in the future,” he added.

Trump wins election

Meanwhile, Donald Trump won the US presidential elections, making a historic comeback to the White House. In his victory speech, the Republican leader touched upon the war and said he would “end all wars” in the coming years as he assumes office for the second time.

Hamas has said that it expects Trump not to “repeat Biden’s mistakes” and “blindly support” Israel in its war efforts. Hezbollah, meanwhile, has said a ceasefire deal with Israel would not be dependent on the election results.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, on the other hand, congratulated Trump. He said, “We are confident that the United States will support, under your leadership, the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people.”

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With inputs from agencies