Lebanon announced Wednesday that it had filed a complaint with the United Nations over deadly explosions of booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies across the country in September, blamed on Israel.
Describe this attack as “blatant war against humanity, against technology, against jobs”Lebanon's Labor Minister Mustafa Bayram announced at a press conference in Geneva that his country had filed a complaint with the International Labor Organization, a specialized UN agency. “This is a very dangerous precedent”he added to correspondents from the Association of UN Accredited Journalists who organized the event.
This step came after Israel intensified air strikes against Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon, Beirut and the Bekaa Plain since September 23, after almost a year of cross-border attacks.