Security Council condemned suicide attacks in Lebanon

The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the consecutive attacks in a Lebanese border village that left five dead and over 32 wounded, urging the international community to work positively together to fend off threats.

    A statement issued by the five permanent members of the Security Council reiterated the "need for all States to combat by all means... threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts".

    The Security Council statement highlighted the need "to bring the perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice," calling on all States "to cooperate actively with the Lebanese authorities in these regards".

    It said that "terrorism in all its forms and manifestations is criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of its motivation and wherever, whenever and by whomsoever it is committed...it should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group".

    The statement called for the dire need to "take measures to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism, terrorist organizations and individual terrorists, in accordance with resolutions 2199 (2015) and 2253 (2015)".

    The multiple attacks on the northeastern border village of Al-Qaa, involving eight suicide bombers, were the largest yet in the latest bloody spillover of the 5-year-old war in Syria into Lebanon.

    Four suicide bombers struck Al-Qaa Monday night, wounding 13 people, 18 hours after four suicide bombings had killed five people and wounded 19 others in the same village, security and military sources said.

Source: QNA