A senior United Nations official has accused Israel of breaking humanitarian law as he toured ruins in Beirut left by devastating Israeli air raids on residential areas.
Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, spoke during a visit to the Haret Hreik district of Beirut where Israeli air raids had struck just hours before, destroying a headquarters of Hezbollah.
"It is horrific. I did not know it was block after block of houses … It makes it a violation of humanitarian law," Egeland told journalists.
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