The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates announced that, based on “Cabinet Resolution No. 14 dated 4/9/2026,” it instructed Lebanon’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations to submit an urgent complaint to both the Security Council and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, following the Israeli air strikes that took place on April 8, 2026, which targeted various areas in Lebanon, most notably the capital, Beirut. The Ministry also requested that this complaint be circulated as an official document for both the General Assembly and the Council. Security.
The message showed that this escalation is the most severe since “last March 2,” noting that the number of raids reached about 100 raids within a period not exceeding ten minutes. These raids targeted populated residential neighborhoods at peak times and without warning, resulting in massive destruction and hundreds of casualties, the majority of whom were civilians.
According to the information contained in the complaint, the number of “martyrs reached 303, including 30 children and 71 women,” while the number of wounded reached “1,150, including 143 children and 358 women.”
The letter also referred to the attacks that have targeted medical and first-aid institutions since “March 2, 2026,” where “17 attacks on hospitals and 101 attacks on first-aid agencies” were recorded, which led to “the martyrdom of 73 paramedics and the injury of 176 others.”
The Ministry stressed in its letter that these attacks represent a clear violation of the principles of international law, the Charter of the United Nations, and international humanitarian law, especially the “Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 regarding the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War,” and “The First Additional Protocol of 1977, which enshrines the principle of discrimination,” in addition to “Security Council Resolutions No. 2175 (2014) and No. 2286 (2016) related to the protection of humanitarian workers.”
