البيانات الصحفية حول الحرب على لبنان ٢٠٢٤
BEIRUT – The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an emergency operation to provide food assistance for up to one million people affected by the recent escalation of the conflict in Lebanon. The agency is distributing ready-to-eat food rations, bread, hot meals and food parcels to families in shelters across the country.
Islamic Relief teams in Beirut have today been distributing emergency aid as thousands more families flee their homes amid the unprecedented escalation in Israeli bombing in the Lebanese capital.
Since 20 September, Lebanon has been experiencing the effects of a dramatic escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. This wave of violence is taking its toll on Lebanese civilians and as of today there are 104,000 newly displaced people, in addition to the 110,000 who have fled the south of the country in the last 11 months. Our teams are working right now to bring urgent aid to the population in distress.
COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale, which has been active in Lebanon since 2013, is intervening to bring immediate aid assistance to all those who have fled with nothing. Our humanitarian workers are working in the vocational training centre in Siblin, Saida Governorate, and in two schools in Nahr Al Bared, Tripoli Governorate, used as collective shelters. Here we have already welcomed 750 people for whom, thanks to the setting up of two mobile kitchens, we are guaranteeing two meals a day. But the situation is critical. This is why we are launching a fundraising appeal: dona.coopi.org/emergenza-libano
The intensity of the present conflict in Lebanon has already claimed the lives of more children per day than the 2006 conflict.
The past few days saw unprecedented escalation of Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon including the South, southern suburb of Beirut and the Bekaa, with attacks increasing in number and the scope expanding to additional areas across the country, such as Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon. Israeli forces stated that they conducted over 1,500 strikes between September 23-24. The destruction of civilian infrastructure and the level of damage in residential areas has caused massive civilian casualties and displacement.
UNRWA declared the activation of its Emergency Response in Lebanon on 24 September 2024, immediately opening two emergency shelters. Between 25 September and 27 September, UNRWA has opened five additional emergency shelters, bringing the total number of operational UNRWA emergency shelters to seven.
مضى عامٌ كاملٌ تقريبًا منذ بدء الحرب على لبنان في ظلّ صمت تامّ من المجتمع الدولي.
لكنَّ الأسبوعَيْن الماضيَيْن شهدا زيادةً مروّعة في وتيرة العنف، حيث بلغَ عدد الوفيات حتّى الآن، وفقًا لأحدث أرقام، ٦٩٠ قتيلًا، بينهم ٥٠ طفلًا و٩٤ امرأة، بالإضافة إلى ٢٣١٦ جريحًا، وأكثر من ١١١٧٠٠ نازحًا.
26 September 2024, Beirut, Lebanon – How does a country reeling from socioeconomic and internal and external political shocks prepare for an acute health emergency? Lebanon may provide an answer.
Since Monday 23 September, nearly 600 people have been killed, including 50 children and 94 women, while nearly 1,700 have been injured by strikes across Lebanon (source: MoPH).