health, the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and the Special Rapporteur on the right to food about the continuing adverse impact on the human rights and the humanitarian situation of the civilian population in Lebanon, Emphasizing that attacks and killings of innocent civilians and the destruction of houses, property and infrastructure in Lebanon are a breach of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and international humanitarian law as well as flagrant violations of human rights, Recognizing the urgent need to address the dire humanitarian situation in Lebanon, including through the immediate lifting of the blockade of Lebanon imposed by Israel, Noting with concern the environmental degradation caused by Israeli strikes against power plants and their adverse impact on health, Concerned at the targeting of the communication and media networks in Lebanon, Outraged at the continuing senseless killings by Israel, with impunity, of children, women, the elderly and other civilians in Lebanon, 1. Strongly condemns the grave Israeli violations of human rights and breaches of international humanitarian law in Lebanon; 2. Condemns the massive bombardment of Lebanese civilian populations, especially the massacres in Qana, Marwaheen, Al Duweir, Al Bayadah, Al Qaa, Chiyah, Ghazieh and other towns of Lebanon, causing thousands of deaths and injuries, mostly among children and women, and the displacement of one million civilians, according to a preliminary assessment, thus exacerbating the magnitude of the human suffering of the Lebanese; 3. Also condemns the Israeli bombardment of vital civilian infrastructure resulting in extensive destruction and heavy damage to public and private properties; 4. Calls upon Israel to abide, immediately and scrupulously, by its