“As the exchange of fire continues along the Blue Line, the Secretary-General calls again on the parties to cease fire urgently,” said the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Thursday for an end to hostilities along the UN-defined border line between Israel and Lebanon, expressing concern over the risk of a “wider conflict with devastating consequences for the region.”
“As the exchange of fire continues along the Blue Line, the Secretary-General calls again on the parties to cease fire urgently,” Mr Guterres’ spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said in a press release issued in New York.
“These exchanges of fire could spark a wider conflict with devastating consequences for the region,” the text warns.
“Hundreds of human lives have already been lost, thousands of people have been displaced, homes and livelihoods have been destroyed on both sides of the Blue Line. Fires caused by explosions ravage communities and the environment,” it added.
Virtually daily exchanges of fire between the Israeli armed forces and the Lebanese Hezbollah have further escalated in recent days amid the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, of which Hezbollah is an ally.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel’s armed forces are “ready for very intensive operations” on the so-called northern front, as rockets and drones fired by Hezbollah sparked forest fires along the border earlier this week, displacing thousands more. residents.
Source :Skai
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