SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: End ‘sickening cycle’ of escalation across the Middle East, Guterres urges

Residents survey the damage in a suburb of southern Beirut left in ruins after being targeted by airstrikes.

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: End ‘sickening cycle’ of escalation across the Middle East, Guterres urges

2 October 2024 Peace and Security

Security Council members met in emergency session on Tuesday morning in New York with the Middle East on the brink of all-out war. App users can reprise our live coverage here.

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A suburb of southern Beirut lies in ruins after being targeted by airstrikes.

Lebanon crisis: UN launches $426 million aid appeal with ‘limited’ Israeli ground incursion underway

1 October 2024

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UN humanitarians launched a $426 million appeal for Lebanon on Tuesday to support one million people uprooted by widespread Israeli shelling amid what Israel has described as a “limited, localised and targeted” ground operation into Lebanon, across the UN-patrolled line of separation.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres (file).

Lebanon crisis: Guterres urges parties to ‘step back from the brink’

28 September 2024

Peace and Security

UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed grave concern on Saturday over the dramatic escalation of events in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, in the past 24 hours.