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U.S. Tells UN: Lebanon Belongs to Its Legitimate Government, Not to Hizbullah or Iran
(U.S. Mission to the UN) Amb. Mike Waltz - U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told the UN Security Council on Monday: "On March 2 of this year, Hizbullah - as we all know is an Iranian proxy that frankly justifies its entire existence through conflict - unilaterally initiated hostilities once again with Israel, just as it did in October 2023. Hizbullah clearly sees Lebanon as nothing more than a launchpad for its Iranian-inspired attacks on Israel. It does not care about Lebanon, the country, or the future of its people." "The [UN] High Commissioner for Human Rights himself has admitted that Hizbullah 'launched indiscriminate barrages of rockets at Israel, injuring people and causing damage to residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure.'" "This is a terrorist group that has attacked Americans, killed UNIFIL peacekeepers, taken civilians hostage for decades, assassinated its own brave people that it pretends to protect, who dare to speak out against them, [and] uses civilian infrastructure, homes, schools, hospitals to conduct its attacks across the region." "Hizbullah has not only rejected the Lebanese government's demands for a ceasefire, it has even recently threatened to overthrow it. So, let's let that sink in: an Iranian-backed terrorist army is threatening the legitimate government of the country that it claims to defend." "The path is clear: Hizbullah stops attacking Israel. The Lebanese Armed Forces and the legitimate Government of Lebanon assert control over Lebanese territory. Iran stops using Lebanon as a forward operating base. And the Lebanese people...finally get a chance to rebuild a country that belongs to them - not Hizbullah, not its thug leadership, and certainly not to Tehran."