Iran’s president addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, saying that Israel’s recent attacks in Lebanon cannot be answered and warned of potential tensions in the region. It is imperative that the international community immediately end the violence and establish a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and end Israel’s desperate brutality in Lebanon before it engulfs the region and the world.
Israel has been targeting targets linked to the Iran-backed group Hezbollah in Lebanon for several days, killing hundreds of people. According to Lebanon’s health ministry, dozens of dead include women and children.
“Body strewn on the side of the road”:
Displaced people describe fleeing southern Lebanon A day after fleeing Israel’s bombardment of southern Lebanon, one man is still shaken by what he saw there. “Bodies were strewn on the side of the road, with their arms blown off. Even the ambulances that tried to reach them were killed.” The man, who gave his name as Ali, told CNN in Beirut.
Her elderly parents tried to calm her down and her father started a conversation. “Yesterday there was non-stop bombing from all directions. Brutal and indiscriminate bombing. They have no mercy for animals, children or humans,” her father said.
Asked about Israeli claims that the targets were Hezbollah hideouts, the father said: “They are lies. All the families are gone. These are not Hezbollah targets. We live in the south, we don’t know that Hezbollah is there.” Where and I don’t know where the Hezbollah fighters are instead (Israel) destroyed houses and fields.
Om Hussain’s family was among the thousands who fled South Lebanon. They spent 14 hours on the road to Beirut, stuck in congested streets, arriving in the Lebanese capital at 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday. “We didn’t have food or water, but volunteers on motorcycles distributed water to people trapped in cars,” he told CNN.
Om Hussain’s family was among the thousands who fled South Lebanon. They spent 14 hours on the road to Beirut, stuck in congested streets, arriving in the Lebanese capital at 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday. “We didn’t have food or water, but volunteers on motorcycles distributed water to people trapped in cars,” he told CNN. “We didn’t bring anything with us, no clothes, no medicine, nothing,” his mother said of how quickly they escaped the Israeli bombardment. The family of eight is now in one of several schools in Beirut that are sheltering the homeless.
