G7 foreign ministers said no country would benefit from further escalation in the Middle East, which “threatens to drag” the entire region into a wider conflict with “unimaginable consequences”.
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“No country will benefit from further escalation in the Middle East… Actions and reactions to them threaten to escalate this dangerous spiral of violence and drag the entire Middle East into a broader regional conflict with unimaginable consequences,” the countries’ statement says.
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In addition, the G7 also called for stopping the current “destructive cycle.”
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Since Monday morning, Israeli aircraft began carrying out massive strikes on settlements in the south and east of Lebanon. Dozens of villages and a number of regional settlements came under attack. Fighters from the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, in turn, fired dozens of rockets towards northern Israel. The Lebanese government has already called on the UN to intervene and stop Israeli aggression.
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Another escalation with increasing intensity of shelling on both sides occurred after massive explosions of communications equipment in different parts of Lebanon on September 17 and 18, which killed dozens of people and injured about 3 thousand.
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Israeli aircraft later struck a residential building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, killing more than 50 people, including Hezbollah special operations commander Ibrahim Aqil. Shiite resistance fighters responded by attacking the Israeli air force base Ramat David and the Rafael military-industrial complex in northern Haifa. Several rockets exploded in residential areas on the outskirts of the Israeli city.
