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Spiralling Middle East crisis sidelines diplomats

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An Iraqi demonstrator holds a picture of Hassan Nasrallah, late leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, during a protest vigil near the suspension bridge leading to Baghdad's Green Zone on September 28, 2024. [AFP]

The language of concern and restraint streaming from global foreign ministries is failing to quell the fires of conflict in the Middle East, with the death Friday of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike bringing the region still closer to war.

Israeli bombings in Lebanon and Hezbollah rocket launches have crescendoed even as world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly appealed for calm.

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