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France calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on Lebanon

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday that his country requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting this week to discuss the situation in Lebanon after the recent intensification of Israeli raids on southern and eastern Lebanon.’I have requested that an emergency meeting of the Security Council be held on Lebanon this week,’ Barrot told the UN General Assembly on Monday, calling on all sides to ‘avoid a regional conflagration that would be devastating for everyone, especially civilians.’The Israeli entity has intensified its attacks on Lebanon, with the Lebanese Ministry of Health announcing that the toll from the Israeli aggression on southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday reached 492 dead and 1645 injured.

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