Canada, UK, Australia and Japan call for 'urgent end to hostilities in Lebanon'

Canada, the UK, Australia, Japan, and six other countries condemned the killings of U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon on Tuesday while calling "for an urgent end to hostilities" in the country where Israeli attacks have killed over 2,000 people since March, Reuters reported. 

"Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Sierra Leone, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom remain deeply concerned by the worsening humanitarian situation and displacement crisis in Lebanon," the countries said in a joint statement.

"We condemn in the strongest terms actions that have killed U.N. peacekeepers and significantly increased the risks faced by humanitarian personnel in southern Lebanon," the 10 countries said in the joint statement.