Mikati condemns Israeli strikes that killed 10 civilians in single day
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned Thursday the escalation as more Israeli strikes were reported in south Lebanon.
"At a time where we are insisting on calm and call all sides to not escalate, we find the Israeli enemy extending its aggression," read a statement from Mikati's office.
The fatalities Wednesday marked a significant escalation in more than four months of daily cross-border exchanges since Oct. 8. Ten people, mostly women and children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Nabatiyeh and Souaneh. Three Hezbollah fighters were also killed Wednesday.
Government institutions, schools and the Lebanese University closed on Thursday in Nabatiyeh as a security precaution.
In the northern Israeli town of Safed, a female Israeli soldier was killed and eight others were wounded by rockets fired from Lebanon Wednesday. Hezbollah did not claim the strike.
Mikati said Lebanon will file a complaint to the U.N. Security Council against Israel.
15 February 2024, 14:03
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Mikati ululates shamefully in our name.
Gemayel, for all his limitations, at least equates the brutal Israeli action as a not unreasonable response to continuing Hezbollah attacks on them from Lebanon.
Jumblat, for all his limitations, at least recognizes that implementing 1701 would have spared us this conflict.
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Now, if only Hiding Hassan would respect and protect the lives of Lebanese citizens instead of putting us all in ever greater danger from an otherwise sleeping wolf ...
