Mob Attacks UN Building in Beirut
A mob broke into the UN headquarters in Beirut today and ransacked the building: Protestors break into U.N. in Beirut.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese protesters broke into the U.N. headquarters in Beirut on Sunday, smashing windows and ransacking offices, after an Israeli air strike killed 54 people in south Lebanon.
Several thousand people massed outside the building in downtown Beirut chanting “Death to Israel, death to America. We sacrifice our blood and souls for Lebanon.”
Geir Petersen, the personal representative of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Lebanon, condemned the Israeli attack on the village of Qana and called for an immediate investigation.
“I strongly condemn today’s killing of tens of civilians by Israeli shelling of residential buildings in the village of Qana,” he said. He was not in building when it was attacked.
