United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law

Volker Türk,United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council there must be an independent and transparent investigation of the two attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday where these devices exploded, reportedly killing 37 people and injuring more than 3,400 others. He told the UNSC that using everyday devices as weapons breaches international law, and stressed that "those who ordered and carried out these attacks must be held to account.”