Recent pager and walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon have caused significant casualties to Hezbollah. Because of this, the situation in the Middle East has become more critical as the war has now extended to Lebanon. Iran has also suffered casualties in recent explosions. Thus, the tension between Iran and Israel has increased. Both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government have blamed Israel for the recent bombings.
According to yesterday’s media reports, after pager attacks and explosions from communication devices, Israel has heavily bombarded southern Lebanon and its capital Beirut with warplanes. Al-Jazeera television network has reported that a building in the suburbs of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, was destroyed, killing 14 civilians, including children, and injuring more than 66 others.
Reports indicate that Israel has carried out more than 100 attacks on 70 locations in southern Lebanon. It can be estimated that Israel is spreading destruction on a wide scale. According to international media reports, Israel has also claimed to have killed Ibrahim Aqeel, one of the most senior commanders of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, in an airstrike. Hezbollah says it fired 140 rockets at Israel in response to the bombing of southern Lebanon. No details regarding how much damage has been caused by these rocket attacks, nor has Hezbollah issued any confirmation press release regarding the death of its senior commander.
If the government of Lebanon has informed the United Nations Security Council of the details of the preliminary investigation of the pager blasts. Lebanon’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations has revealed that Israel has detonated pagers in Lebanon through electronic messages. There are also reports circulating in the media that the pagers that have been flown were rigged with explosives before reaching Lebanon. The Norwegian supplier of these pagers has disappeared after the explosions in Lebanon. Thus the matter has become very complicated.
After this tragedy, the arrests and investigations of suspicious people have also started in Taiwan because the pagers used in the explosions in Lebanon were manufactured by a Taiwanese company. According to media reports, the Lebanese guerrilla organization Hezbollah imported 5,000 pagers from Taiwan.
It has been revealed in the world media with reference to US intelligence sources that Israel planned the pager explosions in Lebanon 15 years ago. Lebanese Prime Minister Mikati has appealed to the United Nations to take notice of Israel’s technological warfare in Lebanon. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has once again warned that the situation in Lebanon can deteriorate very quickly, which must be done to prevent it.
Meanwhile, Israel has continued its military operations in Gaza. Al-Jazeera has reported with reference to medical sources that Israel killed 34 Palestinians in Gaza yesterday. On the other hand, American congresswoman of Palestinian origin Rashida Talib has submitted 650 pages of documents containing the names of children who were martyred in Gaza to the American Congress. These figures can give an idea of how high the estimated death toll of innocent children in Gaza is.
More than 3,000 pagers used by Hezbollah leaders and workers in Lebanon have been blown up one after the other, and walkie-talkies were also blown up in the funeral prayers of the martyrs yesterday, and as a result, as much as With high casualties, it has introduced a new dimension of technological warfare in the Middle East. Using commonly used technology for explosions is a very dangerous development because the technology is also used by ordinary users. Both the Lebanese government and Hezbollah have blamed Israel for the pagers and walkie-talkie blasts. Investigations in this regard are ongoing, but sources say that it is very difficult to ignore the role of Israeli agencies in these explosions.
This matter has reached the United Nations, while America is also fully aware of this situation. Since the elections are going on in America at the moment, the Biden administration may not be able to take any major decision. In this situation, intelligence agencies usually work more openly. If there had been a cease-fire in Gaza, perhaps the level of tension would not have been so high.
Most of the responsibility for the non-ceasefire in Gaza lies with the US and the European Union. In this matter, the attitude of veto powers like Russia and China did not seem very serious, while India, Brazil and the Arab League did not play a more dynamic role, which resulted in a cease-fire in Gaza. The United States also blocked the Security Council’s statements regarding the ceasefire.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken said in the past that it is up to the parties to decide whether they want a ceasefire or not. This statement means that the US does not want to put pressure on Israel for a ceasefire in Gaza. Israel’s ambitions have been expansionist since the beginning, atrocities on Palestinians are nothing new. When Israel emerged as a state on the world map, at that time its total area was only five thousand square miles and more or less five hundred thousand Jews lived within its boundaries, but today the state of Palestine extends to the Golan Heights of Syria and It has reached the borders of Lebanon. Voices against Israel continue to be raised, but never reach Israel’s ears. The main reason for this is the support of every aggression of Israel by many world powers, including the United States.
On March 4 this year, it was reported that the Chief Prosecutor of the International Court of Justice, Fatau bin Souda, has started a formal investigation of alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Fataw bin Souda said that during the investigation of this matter, the events that took place in the occupied West Jordan, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip from June 13, 2014 until now will be covered.
The International Court of Justice (ICC) has the power to prosecute those who commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on the territory of states and territories recognized by the United Nations under the Rome Statute. The foundation of the creation of the International Court is the Treaty of Rome, but Israel has never ratified the Treaty of Rome, although the Secretary General of the United Nations has ratified the accession of the Palestinians in 2015.
The speed with which the international community supported the demand for independence in East Timor, I wish such movement could be seen in response to the Israeli atrocities on the innocent people of Palestine. Despite all these conditions, there is some light at the end of the tunnel, that’s why Israel could not prolong the aggression despite all its cannons, shells, humanitarian atrocities on the Palestinians.
This is the inclination of the world public opinion in favor of the Palestinians, which is clearly evidenced by the demonstrations against the Israeli aggression in the US and Western countries. The civil society and all other institutions and organizations in Pakistan have strongly condemned the Israeli aggression on Palestine and it has been made clear to the international community through the United Nations that the results of the Israeli action will prove to be extremely dangerous and fruitless. Not only the Muslim Ummah but also the international community stands with Palestine.
Israel is committing the worst aggression against Palestinians. Innocent children, elderly and women are the most victims of this aggression. Despite all these facts, the world powers are silent on Israel’s aggressive ambitions and atrocities. In such a situation, the dream of world peace can never be realized. Public support for the Palestinians in the US and other Western countries is increasing, but can it stop Israel’s aggressive ambitions and occupation of the Palestinian territories? Or the clouds of war in the Middle East, they can escape?
