{"id":7790,"date":"2024-08-26T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=7790"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:56:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:11:33","slug":"un-chief-deeply-concerned-over-exchanges-of-fire-across-lebanon-israel-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/un-chief-deeply-concerned-over-exchanges-of-fire-across-lebanon-israel-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief &#8216;deeply concerned&#8217; over exchanges of fire across Lebanon-Israel frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; over the exchanges of fire across the Blue Line &#8212; the Lebanon-Israel frontier, his spokesman said on Sunday. &#8220;The secretary-general is deeply concerned by the significant increase in the exchanges of fire across the Blue Line,&#8221; Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN chief, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These actions put both the Lebanese and Israeli populations at risk, as well as threatening regional security and stability,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres called for immediate de-escalation and on the parties to &#8220;urgently and immediately&#8221; return to a cessation of hostilities and fully implement UN Security Council resolution 1701, it added.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement posted on social media platform X on Sunday, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL) Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) urged Israel and Hezbollah to &#8220;refrain from further escalatory action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In light of worrying developments across the Blue Line since the early morning, UNSCOL and UNIFIL call on all to cease fire and refrain from further escalatory action,&#8221; the statement said.<br \/>\n&#8220;A return to the cessation of hostilities, followed by the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, is the only sustainable way forward,&#8221; it added. Israeli and Hezbollah forces engaged in extensive exchanges of fire early Sunday morning along the Israel-Lebanon border, marking a significant escalation in their longstanding conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Resolution 1701, issued by the UN Security Council in August 2006, calls for a cessation of hostilities between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, a withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon and the establishment of a demilitarized zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; over the exchanges of fire across the Blue Line &#8212; the Lebanon-Israel frontier, his spokesman said on Sunday. &#8220;The secretary-general is deeply concerned by the significant increase in the exchanges of fire across the Blue Line,&#8221; Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN chief, said in a statement. &#8220;These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7796,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790\/revisions\/7796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}