(5 Oct 2024)
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Paris, France – 05 October 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Ziad Makary, Lebanese Minister of Information:
“A lot of countries are helping us, supporting Lebanon, but it’s not enough because Israel is hitting Lebanon everyday, day and night. They are destroying Beirut, They already destroyed a lot of villages in the south. They already killed 2,000 civilians. We have 10,000 injured people, 1,200,000 displaced people inside Lebanon. We are committed to to apply the 1701 resolution. Israel has violated this resolution since 2006 for 57,000 times. And the world should know all those numbers.”
++BLACK FRAMES++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ziad Makary, Lebanese Minister of Information:
“We were keen to go with the French-American initiative that was supported also by the European Union and Australia, Switzerland, Great Britain, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. But as you know, the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah destroyed everything that was being prepared in New York. So now we are in a new situation, a dramatic situation, and despite everything, we are still asking for a cease-fire and a diplomatic solution.”
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ziad Makary, Lebanese Minister of Information:
“They don’t have red lines. They never had red lines. They didn’t have red lines in Gaza and they won’t have red lines in Lebanon. But in Lebanon, militarily speaking, it will be harder on them to enter, and they are also paying a big price.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Lebanese Foreign Minister Ziad Makary said on Saturday that Lebanon was still “asking for a cease-fire and a diplomatic solution” despite the Israeli onslaught and assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Speaking to The Associated Press on the sidelines of the Francophonie Summit, Makary said the acting Lebanese government was “keen to go with the French-American initiative” before it was scuppered by Israel’s move to kill Nasrallah.
Makary went on to say that the Netanyahu government is ready to commit similar atrocities in Lebanon as it has done in Gaza, but that “militarily speaking, it will be harder on them to enter, and they are also paying a big price.”
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