The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) announced this Thursday that The population flees from Israeli bombings against alleged Hezbollah targets. Recent hostilities have left more than 600 dead and 1,835 injured.
UNHCR estimated more than 90,000 the number of people displaced since September 23 and “every minute there are more people leaving their homes,” he noted.
Lebanon’s border with Syria has become the scene of a new humanitarian crisis with tens of thousands of people seeking to escape the Israeli onslaught on Lebanese territory, warned UNHCR as well as other UN relief agencies operating in the area. .
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in New York to participate in the high-level debate of the UN General Assembly, a forum in which US President Joe Biden.
For its part, The Secretary-General of the United Nations warned in an emergency session of the Security Council that all hell is breaking loose in Lebanon.
António Guterres alluded to the exchange of fire of increasing scope and intensity along the Blue Line, which separates Lebanon from Israel and is patrolled by the UN.
Another voice of alarm was raised by the head of UN Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, who expressed great concern about the strong escalation on the Blue Line. “We should all be alarmed,” he pointed out.
Lacroix stressed that Both the Lebanese and Israeli populations “are in extreme danger, with hundreds dead and thousands injured in the last few days alone. Regional security and stability are at risk.”
The UNHCR representative in Syria noted that thousands of Syrian and Lebanese families are crossing into Syria as the Israeli army announced attacks on more than 70 targets overnight in the Bekaa Valley in eastern and southern Lebanon. areas considered alleged Hezbollah strongholds.
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