Security Council Members Call for Israel to Withdraw From Southern Lebanon
Source Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror
The U.N. panel met after Israel had threatened to attack southern Beirut. President Trump said later that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed not to attack each other.
Farnaz Fassihi has covered the United Nations for 10 years through four different American administrations.
At a United Nations emergency Security Council meeting on Monday, diplomats were nearly unanimous — except the United States — in calling for Israel to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon and refrain from threatened escalatory attacks on the country.
The meeting, requested by France, took place on a day of turmoil in Lebanon, with tens of thousands of people fleeing their homes, shelters overfilling, and a sense of panic because Israel had threatened to attack the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital. A day earlier, Israel had moved deeper into Lebanon’s southern territory, inciting alarm and fear of an expanding military occupation.
The tensions culminated with President Trump intervening and saying he had gotten Israel to back off from striking Lebanon and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant and political group, not to attack Israel.
Hezbollah attacked Israel in early March in defense of Iran, not long after the war started. Israel has been attacking Lebanon in an effort to destroy Hezbollah. The Lebanese government has been engaging in direct negotiations with Israel to end hostilities, but it has no power over Hezbollah.
Reference Link:- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/world/middleeast/un-security-council-lebanon.html
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
