CANADA, UK, AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN CALL FOR ‘URGENT END TO HOSTILITIES IN LEBANON

CANADA, UK, AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN CALL FOR ‘URGENT END TO HOSTILITIES IN LEBANON’ –  Israeli offensive has and forced 1.2 million from their homes 

Canada, the UK, Australia, Japan and six other countries condemned the killings of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon while calling for an ” urgent end to hostilities” in the country.

“Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Sierra Leone, Switzerland and the United Kingdom remain deeply concerned by the worsening humanitarian situation and displacement crisis in Lebanon,” the countries said in a joint statement without directly mentioning U.S. ally Israel or Iran-backed Hezbollah militants.

The statement comes after the deaths of three Indonesian peacekeepers last month. The U.N. has said preliminary findings from its probe showed one was killed by an Israeli tank projectile and two by an improvised explosive device most likely placed by Hezbollah.

Israel has since widened a ground invasion into Lebanon’s south, ordering hundreds of thousands of Lebanese to flee villages.