UN rights office: Many victims of Israeli strike in north Lebanon were women and kids

The UN human rights office says it has received reports that more than half of the 22 victims of an Israeli airstrike on a building in northern Lebanon were women and children.

“What we are hearing is that amongst the 22 people killed were 12 women and two children,” UN human rights office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence tells a Geneva press briefing in response to a question about a strike on Aitou on Monday.

“We understand it was a four-story residential building that was struck. With these factors in mind, we have real concerns with respect to International Humanitarian Law, so the laws of war, and the principles of distinction proportion and proportionality,” he says, calling for an investigation.