Lebanon’s caretaker foreign minister is warning the UN Security Council that if it doesn’t condemn this week’s deadly explosions and name Israel as the perpetrator a “Pandora’s Box” will be opened, and governments and extremists will target and kill civilians with similar communications devices.

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy gestures while speaking about climate and environment policy at Kew Gardens in London, Britain September 17, 2024. Frank Augstein/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister David Lammy chaired a meeting of the government's emergency committee,

The foreign secretary has chaired an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss the situation in Lebanon and ensure the UK is prepared for any escalation that might require the evacuation of British nationals,

David Lammy chaired a Cobra meeting to discuss preparations to evacuate remaining Britons from Lebanon, having already urged UK nationals to leave the country amid hostilities with Israel. The foreign secretary led meetings in Whitehall on Friday as officials try to avoid a repeat of the chaos in which British people scrambled to leave Afghanistan when the Taliban took over in 2021.

Lebanon is home to almost 6 million people. Of those, only an estimated 20,000 and 50,000 are Hezbollah fighters.