UN human rights office concerned about Israeli strikes on civilians in Lebanon

By Olivia Le Poidevin

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations quality rights bureau is acrophobic astir the extortion of civilians successful Lebanon arsenic Israeli subject operations person continued to termination civilians since the ceasefire.

"Israeli subject operations successful Lebanon proceed to termination and injure civilians, and destruct civilian infrastructure, raising concerns regarding the extortion of civilians," the spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights, Thameen Al-Kheetan, told reporters successful Geneva connected Tuesday.

At slightest 71 civilians - including 14 women and 9 children - person been killed by Israeli forces successful Lebanon, since the ceasefire came into effect connected 27 November past year, and 92,000 are inactive displaced, according to OHCHR.

"We are calling for investigations into each allegations of violations...Each and each subject enactment wherever civilians are killed indispensable beryllium investigated," Al-Kheetan said.

"The ceasefire indispensable clasp and immoderate escalation is simply a hazard for stableness successful wide successful Lebanon, Israel and the full region," helium added.

(Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Miranda Murray and Madeline Chambers)