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UN Secretary-General Guterres (file photo)

On August 25, local time, UN Secretary-General Guterres issued a statement through his spokesman's office, expressing deep concern over the sharp increase in exchanges of fire along the "Blue Line" temporary border between Lebanon and Israel. He said that these actions put the people of Lebanon and Israel at risk and threatened regional security and stability.

In his statement, Guterres called on all parties to urgently and immediately cease hostilities and fully implement Security Council resolution 1701 (2006).

In the early morning of the 25th, the situation between Israel and Lebanon suddenly became tense. The Israeli military announced that after detecting that Hezbollah was preparing to launch a "large-scale" attack, it launched a "preemptive" strike against Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah issued a statement denying this and announced that it had launched a large number of drones and rockets at Israel in retaliation for the Israeli airstrike that killed its military leader Shukur in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, last month. At the same time, it announced that the first phase of the attack was a success.