{"id":6633,"date":"2026-03-06T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/6633\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:26:06","slug":"israels-strikes-on-lebanon-need-urgent-legal-probe-says-un-as-hundreds-of-thousands-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/6633\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s strikes on Lebanon need urgent legal probe, says UN, as hundreds of thousands flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United Nations on Friday demanded swift investigations into fatal Israeli strikes across Lebanon to decide if they followed international law.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe devastating impact of this renewed conflict is already before our eyes, with civilians paying a painfully heavy price,\u201d UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe urge the parties to step back from the brink of a major escalation of this conflict in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Her comments came as fresh Israeli strikes battered Lebanon, where Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned \u201ca humanitarian disaster is looming\u201d due to mass displacement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-16lwkd e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772803566_899_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">Lebanon on front line of Israeli strikes as Iran war threatens to spread beyond the region<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon on front line of Israeli strikes as Iran war threatens to spread beyond the region<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Shamdasani warned that \u201cIsrael\u2019s military ground incursions into southern Lebanon, blanket displacement orders for the population in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, the Bekaa region and the full area to the south of the Litani river, and its continued air strikes on different parts of the country, are bringing more misery and suffering to an already weary civilian population\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Nations on Friday demanded swift investigations into fatal Israeli strikes across Lebanon to decide if they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[656,4171,847,4174,4170,100,4175,37,93,2426,4172,3925,4173,1243],"class_list":{"0":"post-6633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-baalbek","10":"tag-beirut","11":"tag-geneva","12":"tag-hachem-osseiran","13":"tag-hezbollah","14":"tag-international-committee-of-the-red-cross","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-lebanon","17":"tag-litani-river","18":"tag-nabatyeh-district","19":"tag-nawaf-salam","20":"tag-ravina-shamdasani","21":"tag-united-nations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}