The United Nations on Wednesday condemned the “horrific” scale of the killing in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, saying reports that hundreds of people, including civilians had been killed and injured were "appalling" just hours after the Iran cease-fire.
Israel's strikes on Lebanon have been the heaviest since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month, even as the Iran-aligned group paused attacks on northern Israel and Israeli troops in Lebanon under a two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire.
"The scale of the killing and destruction in Lebanon today is nothing short of horrific," U.N. Human Rights Chief Volker Turk said in a statement.
"Such carnage, within hours of agreeing to a ceasefire with Iran, defies belief. It places enormous pressure on a fragile peace, which is so desperately needed by civilians," he said.
Turk's statement said a U.N. Human Rights team at the site of one of the strikes in the capital described a scene of devastation, and seeing several dead bodies amid the rubble.
