On Sunday the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland toured Beirut and condemned Israel’s actions as violations of humanitarian law.

• Jan Egeland, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator: “What I see is a disproportionate response in my view, virtually whole blocks being levelled to the ground in southern Beirut. Mostly residential houses as I could see it. We were trampling on a school box when we went through rubble. But of course Hezbollah blending into the population and continuing to fire missiles to Israel–they have to stop it. These are violations of humanitarian law and the civilians should be shielded, civilians are protected people, they are not the targets.”