JI see this as the spark that will ignite the powder… It’s potentially apocalyptic”, warned Martin Griffiths in Geneva to journalists, whose mandate ends at the end of the month. The possible consequences are “unpredictable”he added.
A conflict involving Lebanon “will win Syria… will win the others” territories in the region, he said. “It will obviously have consequences in Gaza, and obviously it will have an impact on the West Bank”he said. “It’s very alarming”.
Since war broke out in Gaza nine months ago “she showed us a new level of tragedy and cruelty”a dit M. Griffiths. “But we all feared that this might just be the beginning”.
The war in the Gaza Strip, sparked by an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, has led to violence on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, where there are almost daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah, a ally of the Palestinian Islamist movement, and the Israeli army.
Hezbollah opened the front with Israel in support of Hamas the day after the attack carried out by the Palestinian movement on October 7 in southern Israel, which resulted in the death of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count established from official Israeli data.
Of 251 people kidnapped during the attack, 116 are still held hostage in Gaza, of whom 42 are dead, according to the army.
In retaliation, Israel launched an offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has so far killed 37,718 people, mostly civilians, according to data from the Hamas-led government’s Health Ministry.
