CAIRO, Egypt: The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, on Saturday accused Israel of attempting to destabilise Syria and Lebanon through military provocations, calling its actions a “flagrant disregard for international legal norms” and regional peace.
In a statement, Aboul Gheit said that global inaction had further emboldened Israel.
“(T)he wars waged by Israel on the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Syria have entered a new phase of complete recklessness, deliberately violating signed agreements, invading countries and killing more civilians,” said the statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
He said that Israel’s resumption of targeted assassinations in Lebanon was an unacceptable and condemnable breach of the ceasefire agreement it signed with Lebanon late last year.
The Arab League chief said that Israel’s actions were driven by narrow domestic agendas at the expense of civilian lives and regional peace.
“It seems that the Israeli war machine does not want to stop as long as the occupation leaders insist on facing their internal crises by exporting them abroad, and this situation has become clear to everyone,” he said.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health’s count last week, more than 50,000 people have been killed and more than 113,200 wounded in Israeli attacks on Palestinian territories in retaliation against the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel.
In Lebanon, war monitors have said that at least 3,961 people were killed and 16,520 wounded in Israel’s war with Hezbollah from October 8, 2023, to November 26, 2024.
Syria’s new government accused Israel on April 3 of mounting a deadly destabilisation campaign after a wave of strikes on military targets, including an airport, and a ground incursion that killed 13 people in the southern province of Daraa.
