(3 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cairo, Egypt – 3 October 2024
1. Wide of Arab League emergency meeting on Lebanon
2. Various of meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hossam Zaki, Assistant Secretary-General at the League of Arab States:
"The Arab league and its member states have warned separately for months from the risks of a regional war that no side will be far from its consequences. And here we are today approaching closely the eruption of such war due to the arrogance and recklessness of the leaders of the Israeli occupation who are insisting on setting fires in the region and not stopping at the crimes they committed and still committing in Gaza. But rather they want to replicate the same brutal scenario in Lebanon with complete impunity, backed by the world’s inability to deter their criminal behaviour violations of legal, humanitarian and moral rules"
4. Mid of meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Hasan al-Halabi, Lebanon’s Permanent Representative to the Arab League:
"The brutal Israeli aggression had left more than 2,000 martyrs and more than 10,000 injured civilians and led to the displacement of more than 1,200,000 Lebanese people, meaning what is accounts for one quarter of the population to various areas in Lebanon, some of them can’t find a shelter so they sleep in the open leaving children, women and elderly exposed to the strikes of the Israeli destruction machine. The flagrant Israeli aggression are up to the level of crimes against humanity, and is considered a violation to the humanitarian ethics and principles."
6. Exterior of the League of Arab states headquarters in Cairo
STORYLINE:
The Arab League on Thursday condemned what it described as Israel’s "brutal scenario" in Lebanon following escalation in hostilities between Israeli forces and Hezbollah.
Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Hossam Zaki warned Thursday about "edging closer to a potential regional war" that could break out due to the "intensified aggression" in Lebanon.
Zaki’s remarks came as part of an emergency meeting to discuss Israeli campaign in Lebanon and its humanitarian impact.
He warned that attacks on Lebanon and the Lebanese people will not achieve security on any side, but it would extend conflicts and increase hatred.
Lebanon’s Permanent Representative to the Arab League Ali Hasan al-Halabi told the meeting that more than 2,000 people were killed over 10,000 injured.
Al-Halabi added that the latest round of hostilities has led to the displacement of more than 1,200,000 people.
Israel was pursuing a ground incursion into Lebanon against Hezbollah, while also conducting strikes in Gaza that killed dozens, including children.
The Israeli military said eight soldiers have died in the conflict in southern Lebanon.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage.
Israel declared war on the militant group in the Gaza Strip in response.
More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory, and just over half the dead have been women and children, according to local health officials.
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