Lebanon files complaint against Israel at UN over deadly pager explosions

A Lebanese authorities curate says his state is filing a title against Israel astatine nan U.N.’s labour statement complete nan drawstring of deadly attacks involving exploding pagers, saying workers were among those killed and injured

GENEVA -- A Lebanese authorities curate said Wednesday his state was filing a title against Israel astatine nan U.N.’s labour statement complete nan drawstring of deadly attacks involving exploding pagers, saying workers were among those killed and injured.

The explosions successful mid-September were widely blamed connected Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied involvement. The blasts killed astatine slightest 37 people, including 2 children, wounded much than 3,000 and profoundly unsettled moreover Lebanese who person nary Hezbollah affiliation.

Lebanese Labor Minister Moustafa Bayram said he traveled to Geneva to formally record nan title against Israel astatine nan International Labor Organization, a sprawling U.N. agency that brings together governments, businesses and workers.

Bayram said nan casualty count was moreover higher than first reported, saying “more than 4,000 civilians fell — betwixt martyrs and injured and maimed — successful a fewer minutes by this attack.”

“This method of warfare and conflicts whitethorn unfastened nan measurement for galore who are evading world humanitarian rule to adopt this method of warfare,” nan curate told reporters astatine nan U.N. compound successful Geneva.

“It’s a very vulnerable precedent, if not condemned,” he said. “We are successful a business wherever mean objects -- objects utilized successful regular life -- go vulnerable and lethal.”

Speaking successful Arabic, Bayram insisted that ILO conventions guarantee nan information and information of workers, who “were successful their workplace and had their pagers aliases walkies-talkies exploding each of a sudden,” according to an interpreter.

"I do not cognize wherever nan result (of nan complaint) will go, but astatine slightest we raised our voices to opportunity and pass against this vulnerable attack that strikes astatine quality relations and leads to much conflicts,” he added.

An ILO spokeswoman said she was not instantly alert of nan title aliases what redress mightiness beryllium imaginable done it.