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A Japanese firm has said that the walkie-talkies used in an attack against Hezbollah members must be at least a decade old, leading to questions of how they could be tampered with. DW has the latest.
- Japanese firm Icom has said both the radios and the batteries used in the walkie-talkie attack against the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon on Wednesday were subject to strict export and security procedures.
- An expert told DW that the attack “must be state-sponsored.”
- The Israeli military has said it struck multiple targets in southern Lebanon overnight.
Here are the latest headlines from the Israel-Hamas war and the wider Middle East on Thursday, September 19:
UN committee: Israel violating international treaty on children’s rights
A United Nations committee described in a document how Israel’s actions in Gaza since October 7 have had a “catastrophic” impact on Palestinian children.
“The committee condemns in the strongest terms the severe violations of rights under the convention in the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories), including the tremendous loss of life as a result of the state party’s military actions,” the committee said, referring to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Israel ratified the convention in 1991. However, the Israeli delegation to the UN had said earlier this month that they do not believe it applies to Gaza or the West Bank.
DW