The UN calls for a negotiated solution to restore security on the border between Lebanon and Israel

MADRID 8 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The office of the United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon has called this Tuesday for an imminent and negotiated solution to restore security and stability on the Blue Line, the border between Lebanon and Israel, as violence in the area increases.

This UN office, in coordination with the United Nations Interim Force for Lebanon (UNIFIL), has indicated in a joint statement that, one year after the start of the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip “the only way to achieve “What civilians on both sides of the border need is a negotiated solution.”

“It is time to act,” says the text, which has asserted that each missile or bomb launched “distances the parties from UN resolution 1701 and the conditions necessary to safeguard the safety of civilians.” “An increase in violence and destruction is not going to solve the problems nor is it going to make anyone feel safer in the long term; quite the opposite,” they clarified.

Thus, they recalled that a year has passed “since the almost daily exchanges of fire across the Blue Line began, initiated when Hezbollah launched rockets towards the Shebaa Farms, in violation of the cessation of hostilities and resolution 1701 of the Security Council”.

“A year has passed in which too many lives have been lost and devastated, while civilians on both sides of the Blue Line lack security and stability. A year in which our repeated calls for restraint, the protection of civilians and compliance with International Law (…) have been ignored,” the text states.

In this sense, they have regretted that the exchanges of fire have increased “to the point of becoming a relentless military campaign whose humanitarian impact is catastrophic.” “Now that constant Israeli bombings are part of daily life in Lebanon and Hezbollah launches rockets and missiles against Israel, too many people are paying an unimaginable price: many dead, many more injured and hundreds of thousands displaced,” they concluded. .