Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Hezbollah rocket fire into Israel during the first three weeks of the latest Israel-Lebanon escalation may amount to serious violations of international humanitarian law, the United Nations has warned in a new report released in Geneva on Friday.
Almost uninterrupted exchanges of fire have continued along the border since 2 March, when Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel in response to US–Israeli strikes on Iran. Israel replied with a large-scale offensive that has since killed more than 2,400 people in Lebanon, according to the UN, and pushed its forces into a belt of Lebanese territory that they continue to hold along the frontier under what officials describe as security operations.
