On Saturday 23rd November at around 4am, a series of Israeli air strikes killed at least 29 people and injured 66 others in the central and densely populated Beirut neighbourhood of Basta al Fawqa.
The deployment of white phosphorus munitions, as recently documented over al-Bustan, a village in Lebanon near the Israeli border, underscores the urgent need to address the humanitarian impact of incendiary weapons within modern warfare.