Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp<\/a> that killed 11 children.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n
He said in a statement on Tuesday that all of those killed in the Ein el-Hilweh strike were civilians, raising \u201cserious concerns that the Israeli military\u2019s attack may have violated international humanitarian law principles on the conduct of hostilities\u201d.<\/p>\n
Israel has killed more than 300 people in Lebanon since the November 27, 2024, ceasefire, including about 127 civilians, according to the UN.<\/p>\n
Israeli forces remain deployed in five areas of southern Lebanon and continue near-daily air raids, which Israel claims target fighters from the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and its infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Al-Kheetan described last week\u2019s strike on Ein el-Hilweh, near Sidon, as one of the deadliest since the ceasefire.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt least 13 civilians, including 11 children, were killed and at least six civilians injured last week in an Israeli strike on the Ein El-Hilweh camp,\u201d he said. \u201cThere must be prompt and impartial investigations \u2026 those responsible must be brought to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Israeli attacks have also hit homes, roads, factories and construction sites, hampering reconstruction in the south and preventing families from returning. He cited a November 16 strike on a cement and asphalt factory in Ansar, which destroyed dozens of concrete mixers, cranes and fuel tanks.<\/p>\n
More than 64,000 people, mostly from southern Lebanon, remain displaced, according to the UN.<\/p>\n
Al-Kheetan said Israel had begun constructing a wall that crosses into Lebanese territory, rendering 4,000 square metres (43,055sq feet) inaccessible and undermining displaced people\u2019s right of return.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll those internally displaced must be able to go back to their homes, and reconstruction should be supported, not tampered with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Escalation in Beirut<\/p>\n
The warning comes amid heightened tension after an Israeli strike in Beirut on Sunday killed a senior Hezbollah commander.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah said its chief of staff, Haytham Ali Tabtabai, was among five people killed and 28 injured in the attack in Dahiyeh.<\/p>\n
Experts say the attack marks a major escalation after Lebanon\u2019s capital was struck for the first time in months, and days after Lebanon\u2019s president announced that the country had agreed to talks following pressure from Israel and the United States to accelerate efforts to disarm Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah was severely weakened after an Israeli escalation in September 2024 that killed its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah and other senior officials. Since the November ceasefire, the group has responded to Israeli attacks only once.<\/p>\n
Al-Kheetan has urged \u201call parties\u201d to observe the ceasefire \u201cin good faith\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cA genuine path towards a permanent cessation of hostilities is the only way to protect the human rights of civilians on both sides from the devastating effects of new hostilities. Accountability for violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law must be realised,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Israel continues its genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza despite a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, killing more than 300 people<\/a> since the truce took effect in early October. At least 69,733 people have been killed in Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023.<\/p>\nIsrael launched the genocidal war on Gaza after the Palestinian armed group Hamas led an attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing at least 1,129 people and seizing more than 200 others as captives.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah started firing rockets into Israel on October 8, 2023, in what it said was an act of solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, beginning more than a year of escalating hostilities with Israel as the two sides frequently exchanged attacks across the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UN human rights office has urged a \u201cprompt and impartial\u201d investigation into Israeli strikes in Lebanon,\u00a0warning of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66183,1155,2128,85,21558,46,48084,88,47,43,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-152275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-child-rights","9":"tag-human-rights","10":"tag-humanitarian-crises","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-investigation","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","15":"tag-lebanon","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-palestine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}