Lebanon files official complaint at UN over Israel’s pager blasts: Minister
Lebanon has filed an official complaint with the United Nations over Israel’s deadly September pager attacks, a Lebanese minister says.
Speaking at a press conference in the Swiss city of Geneva on Wednesday, Lebanon’s Labour Minister Mustafa Bayram said that his country had filed an official complaint with the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) over a string of blast of communication devices by Israel occurring on two consecutive days.
The explosions, purportedly aimed at targeting members of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, led to the indiscriminate maiming and murder of innocent Lebanese men, women and children through exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.
The attack was an “egregious war against humanity, against technology, against work,” Bayram told reporters, adding that 4,000 civilians were killed or wounded in the September blasts.
The death toll from the pager blasts rose to 12, including two children. Among the wounded, at least 200 were in critical condition.
“It’s a very dangerous precedent if not condemned,” Bayram said of the attacks, which Lebanon says killed and injured workers.
“We are in a situation where ordinary objects – objects used in daily life – become dangerous and lethal,” he added.
This dastardly operation, widely blamed on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied the allegation, can be taken as a sure sign that Tel Aviv believed it was losing the genocidal war in the besieged Gaza Strip against Hezbollah and other resistance groups elsewhere.
It was “widely accepted internationally … that Israel was behind this heinous act,” the Lebanese minister stressed.
When he was asked why he chose to lodge a formal complaint with the ILO, Bayram said that the workers who were harmed in the explosions were on the job.
“We deemed it necessary to point out that this runs contrary to work environment, security and safety, contrary to decent work principles … defended by the ILO,” he added.
Since late September, Israel has launched an intense air and ground onslaught against Lebanon after nearly a year of cross-border exchanges with Hezbollah over the war in Gaza.
Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed at least 3,000 people and wounded over 13,500 since October 2023, the Lebanese government said on Tuesday.
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