UN chief Guterres’s spokesman has been asked whether the global body believes a ceasefire is in place in Lebanon amid deadly Israeli attacks and return fire from Hezbollah.
– “There was a cessation of hostilities agreement,” Stephane Dujarric replied during a briefing at UN headquarters in New York City.
– “I think how it’s being respected or disrespected is a matter of fact. It’s a situation of a lesser fire. We will continue to call for the agreement to actually be respected, and not be ignored.”
– Dujarric earlier told reporters that peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had recorded 206 “firing incidents” in southern Lebanon originating from Israeli military positions as of 4pm local time today, as well as “seven trajectories attributed to Lebanese nonstate actors presumed to be Hezbollah”.
– “They also detected five air strikes in our own area of operations,” he added.
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