World leaders lined up at the United Nations on Tuesday to call on Israel to refrain from a full-scale war in Lebanon, with the organization's chief warning the situation was on the "brink."

A senior Israeli Air Force officer stated that the bombardment of Lebanon since Monday was the most extensive ever carried out in the air force’s history, according to the Times of Israel. Over 1,600 sites were struck using over 2,

Israel’s strikes on Lebanon on Monday amounted to one of the most intense air raids in contemporary warfare, outstripping even the bombing of Gaza during the opening days of the Israeli-Hamas war in October, war experts said.

In “Pity the Nation” he reports on Lebanon in the decade and a half from 1976, during a civil war involving Christian Maronites, various Muslim groups and, eventually, Druze. Outsiders made things worse.

Thousands have poured into the city of Aley, about 12 miles from Beirut, after fleeing southern Lebanon where Israel has focused its airstrikes against Hezbollah.Schools and other buildings have been turned into shelters.

Israel and Hezbollah are locked in a cycle of retribution, after Israeli intelligence targeted the terror group in Lebanon

Smoke rises from Israeli shelling on villages in the Nabatiyeh district, seen from the southern town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The UN chief warned world leaders on Tuesday that Lebanon was on "the brink" as clashes escalated between Israel and Hezbollah ahead of US President Joe Biden's final appearance at

UN Secretary General António Guterres has expressed his concern at the escalation of violence in the Middle East and the hundreds of people in Lebanon who have been killed and wounded in Israeli attacks on Monday.