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Live blog: Lebanon slams Israel at UNSC, displays image of fingerless hand

Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, now in its 351st day, has killed at least 41,300 Palestinians and wounded over 95,550 others — a conservative estimate — with 10,000+ believed to be buried under rubble of annihilated homes.

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At least 14 people have been killed and 66 wounded after the Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon's Health Ministry says. / Photo: Reuters

Saturday, September 21, 2024

2032 GMT — Lebanon's Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has told the UN Security Council that "no one in this world is safe anymore" after Israel's pager and walkie-talkie blasts in his country killed dozens and wounded thousands.

Bou Habib accused Israel of "terrorism", saying Lebanon is not seeking revenge but justice. He showed the council a large picture of a bloody hand with missing fingers.

"We came to the council to protect our common humanity and to ask you to condemn the terrorist Israeli attacks clearly and unequivocally, to hold Israel accountable for planning and implementing these attacks and for violating the sovereignty of Lebanon and its territorial integrity," he said.

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2109 GMT — Hezbollah confirms top military commander Ibrahim Aqil killed

Lebanon's Hezbollah group has confirmed in the early hours of Saturday that its top military commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed, calling him "one of its top leaders", without providing further details on his killing.

The Israeli military and a security source in Lebanon said Aqil was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut earlier on Friday that also left 13 other Lebanese dead and nearly 70 wounded. Rescuers were stilling digging the site for more bodies.

2028 GMT — Israel pushing region into war: Macron to Netanyahu

French President Emmanuel Macron has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his country is pushing the region into a war, according to Israeli media.

According to the Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Macron talked to Netanyahu over the phone following an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon that killed 14 people and wounded 66 others.

The newspaper quoted Macron as telling Netanyahu that "Israel is pushing the region into war."

Netanyahu told Macron that "instead of putting pressure on Israel, it's time for France to increase the pressure on Hezbollah," according to Yedioth Ahronoth.

The newspaper also quoted a French official, without mentioning his name, who said France believes that the recent developments in Lebanon have further increased the chances of a war.

2022 GMT — Israel kills 44 Palestinians in Gaza in 24 hours

At least 44 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli air strikes and raids across the war-torn Gaza in last 24 hours.

Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal said two Palestinians were killed in a pair of strikes on a home and a car in northern Gaza.

Gaza City witnessed the highest fatalities, as 18 Palestinians, including three children and two women, were killed in six Israeli air strikes on homes and gatherings of people across the city.

Basal said 10 people were killed in the central Gaza area in two Israeli strikes on a home and a building that shelters displaced people.

Fourteen Palestinians were killed in Rafah, the southernmost of the enclave, in two Israeli strikes on a home that left 13 dead, including children and women, and on a motorcycle that left one Palestinian dead.