UN Rights Commissioner Volker Turk tells Al Jazeera that the UN has dispatched an assessment mission to Lebanon to look at “serious violations of humanitarian law” by all parties to the conflict.

Turk says that after visiting a residential building in a densely populated area in Beirut that was destroyed in an attack, he sensed that “the principles of distinction, precaution, and proportionality were absolutely not respected in this case, and that really needs to be brought to light”.

“We need to tell the truth about this, and we need to bring the human side of conflict into the spotlight, which also means, yes, there are issues around accountability because people should not get away with the commission of crimes,” he adds.

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