October 14, 2023
Lebanon to file UN complaint over killing of journalist by Israel
Saturday, 14 October 2023 18:54 [ Last Update: Saturday, 14 October 2023 18:59 ]
Lebanon said on Saturday that it will file a complaint with the UN Security Council over “deliberate killing” by Israel of a Reuters journalist, a Lebanese national, state media reported.
Iran Press/ West Asia: Six other journalists were injured in a village in Lebanon when their position was shelled. Israel Defence Forces say they are investigating the incident.
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, the Foreign Ministry instructed Lebanon’s permanent mission to the UN to submit a complaint for “deliberate killing” of video journalist Issam Abdullah, who worked for Reuters, and wounding two other journalists working for AFP and Al Jazeera.
The Israeli regime released infrared footage on Friday showing what they say are the strikes on militants attempting to cross the Israel border from Lebanon. It was not clear which group the alleged militants belonged to.
On Friday, Hezbollah said its fighters fired several rockets at four Israeli positions along the border and the Israeli army said it had attacked Hezbollah targets with drone strikes.
Abdallah was with a group of journalists from other organizations, including Al Jazeera and Agence France-Presse, when he was killed on Friday while providing a live video signal for broadcasters.
The group was working near the village of Alma al-Shaab, close to the border, where the Israeli military and Hezbollah have been trading fire in border clashes.
I'm not saying they shouldn't complain to the UN, but I will say the UN is a joke and anyone who expects anything from the UN has never paid attention. If the UN actually had the ability to actually do things Israel as a state wouldn't exist, the US probably wouldn't exist, people like George Bush, Cheney, Obama, Biden, Netanyahu, and many others would be in an international prison together.
To use a definitely-American-centric analogy, the UN is like the US except instead of a central federal government taking rights from states in order to impose some semblance of "a united country" the UN exists as an absolutely powerless entity without the ability to even punish members for supporting fucking genocide. Now obviously it's like this by design because this benefits the US (and even more with the downfall of the USSR), but ideally the UN would hold sole ability to do "legal" military actions, would impose trade regulations between nations, etc. with elected representatives of some sort from the applicable nations apportioned according to population sizes, land size being irrelevant. Now obviously this would mean the US couldn't do illegal wars and wouldn't have outsized economic power nor outsized ability to influence the UN- so, it didn't happen and for now "never will" although never is only never until it happens, so, whatever.
This was more just a rant about how much I hate the US of the past and present, how everything has been rigged towards not just general self interest but rigged towards self interest at the absolute annihilation of all others. The fact that the US is the only country (and Israel and now maybe Ukraine?) to vote to allow the 60+ years of soft genocide against Cuba (other countries too off and on. DPRK too of course) to continue and that the rest of the world has to just accept that and can't, like, vote to impose immediate zero-trade sanctions on the US in retaliation for blatant aggression for no reason, is fucking comically evil and just stupid. No one should take the UN seriously because it doesn't take itself seriously, and was never intended to. It's just one of those "employee complaints" boxes that shitty jobs often have. The boss reads them, says "I hear your pain" and then does absolutely nothing. It's just a cathartic release at best for those complaining and a justification or thing to point at "see, I did a legalese thing. This is legal now. No one can question it" for the US (mostly). Fucking shit sucks.
It would be great if there were reproductions for this. I won’t hold my breath.
