Biden today delivered his final address to the United Nations General Assembly, in which he called for a ceasefire in Gaza and urged a reduction in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Full-scale war is not in anyone’s interest, even if the situation worsens. A diplomatic solution remains the only way, and it is still possible. The president’s speech calling for final security comes as the conflict in southern Lebanon is boiling over, with Israel today launching a new round of attacks, the latest being seen near Ben Vi. Chaos and dust moments after Israeli airstrikes on a southern Gulf route Israel claimed the target was a key Hezbollah operative. Butler said nothing At least six people were killed, and fifteen were wounded.
Hezbollah has been firing rockets across the border. On Monday, it suffered its highest daily death toll since nineteen eighty-two after Israeli bombings presented a vile massacre, four dead women and children south of Beirut have begun to be buried, Hezbollah banners draped over the coffins. What was a border war is now looking more like a war. Thousands of people are fleeing for their lives again, just like in the last war. Dozens of schools in the capital have been converted into shelters for the displaced, not an easy task for the elderly and the weak, most people have left everything behind, including their dead.
We indeed left, but material things can be replaced, Zainab’s life cannot be replaced, losing someone is incredibly difficult, for Abu Ali and his family of six the house is now a bear classroom, I ask him if as Israel says it was only attacking their bullet targets and they live. A man who lives in Gaza says I live in a minute, liars they are liars, he shoots back, whole families are gone, they are not Hezbollah targets, we live in the south, we don’t know where Hezbollah is. I don’t know where the Hezbollah fighters are, doctor Jihad’s side treated the wounded in two thousand. Six wars and here in Beirut in this hospital he’s doing it all again, they’re all civilians.
Three of them had trauma and as we all see there were different dramas. This again, is all very familiar, and in the war at the beginning of the report, I mentioned the attack on the Gulf route and the day rarely Israel claims that there was a senior Bola operative. Now Hezbollah made an announcement just a few minutes ago that there was a senior operative it was commander Ibrahim Kobe, who was responsible for their Butler’s network of missiles and rockets—also hearing from the British Ministry of Defense that Britain is deploying seven hundred troops to Cyprus.
Running for contingency plans maybe there are also any additional troops to get me out of the US. Help Ben Weidman, this is part of the strategy of what they’re calling escalation, but how dangerous can this be for civilians on both sides in southern Lebanon and northern Israel? We’ve seen seventy thousand Israeli civilians killed last week, and over one hundred and ten thousand Lebanese today and you can see the human loss in some of the pictures that have come out in the last few days.
Our focus at USAID, of course, is how we can scale up the humanitarian response if people are displaced from their homes if they’re flying, but Biden’s message today was very clear. What you’re saying is escalation, ah, is the only way to get these results that keep happening, I mean we see the conflict. What this human loss is in the Gaza conflict in Sudan. That’s why American diplomacy has been so focused on escalation means time.