The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants issued the following statement:
"Complaint to the United Nations regarding the Israeli airstrikes of April 8, 2026
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants states that, based on Cabinet Decision No. 14 dated 9/4/2026, it requested Lebanon’s representative to the United Nations to submit an urgent complaint to the Security Council and the Secretary-General, against the backdrop of the Israeli airstrikes on April 8, 2026, which targeted a number of Lebanese areas, particularly the capital, Beirut. The ministry also requested that the complaint be circulated as an official document of the General Assembly and the Security Council.
The letter noted that this escalation was the most violent since last March 2, and that the number of strikes reached around 100 in less than ten minutes. They hit densely populated residential neighborhoods during peak hours and without prior warning, resulting in widespread destruction and hundreds of casualties, most of them unarmed civilians. The death toll reached 303, including 30 children and 71 women, while the number of wounded stood at 1,150, including 143 children and 358 women. The letter also addressed the attacks suffered by medical and emergency institutions since March 2, 2026, including 17 attacks on hospitals and 101 attacks on emergency response entities, which led to the killing of 73 paramedics and the injury of 176 others.
The letter stressed that these attacks constitute a flagrant violation of the principles of international law, the Charter of the United Nations, and international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war, and the First Additional Protocol of 1977, which enshrines the principle of distinction, as well as Security Council Resolutions 2175 (2014) and 2286 (2016) on the protection of personnel engaged in humanitarian assistance."
