2024 09 24 UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani briefing on Lebanon
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UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah

We are extremely alarmed by the sharp escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah and call on all parties to immediately cease the violence and to ensure the protection of civilians,” UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said.

Yesterday marked the deadliest day of violence in years, with reports of at least 492 killed and 1,645 injured following a series of Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon,” Shamdasani told the weekly press briefing in Geneva.

Lebanon’s health ministry said 35 children and 58 women were among those killed, as well as a number of medical workers. On a personal note, one of our UN Human Rights colleagues in Beirut lost seven of her family members yesterday including two children aged eight and one in an Israeli airstrike in South Lebanon,” she said.

“Roads in southern Lebanon are crammed with people in cars fleeing the violence. This latest violence follows last week’s deadly pager and two-way radio attacks in Lebanon and Syria, and the firing of hundreds of rockets by Hezbollah into Israel from Lebanon,” she added.

International humanitarian law is very clear. All parties to an armed conflict must at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives. Constant care must be taken to spare the civilian population and civilian objects. The laws of war also oblige all parties to observe the principle of proportionality,” Shamdasani stressed.

Incidents in which any civilians – including children and medical workers – are killed or seriously injured, potentially in violation of international law, must be subject to independent, thorough, and transparent investigations into the circumstances of the attacks,” she said.

“The UN High Commissioner Volker Türk calls on all States and actors with influence in the region and beyond to avert further escalation and do everything they can to ensure full respect for international law,” said Shamdasani.

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STORY: UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

TRT: 02:27

SOURCE: OHCHR / UNOG
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LANGUAGE: English/NATS
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
DATELINE: 24 September 2024 – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

SHOTLIST

  1. Exterior shots : Palais de Nations
  2. Cut aways: Briefing room
  3. SOUNDBITE (English)—Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): We are extremely alarmed by the sharp escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah and call on all parties to immediately cease the violence and to ensure the protection of civilians.”
  4. Cut aways: Briefing room
  5. SOUNDBITE (English)—Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Yesterday marked the deadliest day of violence in years, with reports of at least 492 killed and 1,645 injured following a series of Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon.”
  6. Cut aways: Briefing room
  7. SOUNDBITE (English)—Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Lebanon’s health ministry said 35 children and 58 women were among those killed, as well as a number of medical workers. On a personal note, one of our UN Human Rights colleagues in Beirut lost seven of her family members yesterday including two children aged eight and one in an Israeli airstrike in South Lebanon.”
  8. Cut aways: Briefing room
  9. SOUNDBITE (English)—Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Roads in southern Lebanon are crammed with people in cars fleeing the violence. This latest violence follows last week’s deadly pager and two-way radio attacks in Lebanon and Syria, and the firing of hundreds of rockets by Hezbollah into Israel from Lebanon.”
  10. Cut aways: Briefing room
  11. SOUNDBITE (English)—Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): International humanitarian law is very clear. All parties to an armed conflict must at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives. Constant care must be taken to spare the civilian population and civilian objects. The laws of war also oblige all parties to observe the principle of proportionality.”
  12. Cut aways: Briefing room
  13. SOUNDBITE (English)—Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Incidents in which any civilians – including children and medical workers – are killed or seriously injured, potentially in violation of international law, must be subject to independent, thorough, and transparent investigations into the circumstances of the attacks.”
  14. Cut aways: Briefing room
  15. SOUNDBITE (English)—Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): The UN High Commissioner Volker Türk calls on all States and actors with influence in the region and beyond to avert further escalation and do everything they can to ensure full respect for international law.”
  16. Cut aways: Briefing room


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