News Mania Desk/ Piyal Chatterjee / 24th September 2024
According to the UN, tens of thousands of Lebanese have left their homes because to the escalating Israeli bombardment.
“We are gravely concerned about the serious escalation in the attacks that we saw yesterday,” UN refugee agency spokesman Matthew Saltmarsh told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
“Tens of thousands of people were forced from their homes yesterday and overnight, and the numbers continue to grow,” he said.
Tuesday saw Israel carry out its extensive airstrike campaign after its bombings the day before left hundreds injured and almost 500 dead. Lebanese residents have been fleeing the country’s south in response to the attacks, while there have also been strikes in other parts of the nation.The bloodiest assault of Lebanon in nearly two decades, Israeli air raids on Monday killed at least 492 people, including 35 children, according to the Ministry of Health in Lebanon.
The bloodiest assault of Lebanon in nearly two decades, Israeli air raids on Monday killed at least 492 people, including 35 children, according to the Ministry of Health in Lebanon.Israel and Hezbollah, longtime enemies, have been engaged in almost constant cross-border gunfire since the Palestinian organization Hamas launched an extraordinary onslaught on Israel on October 7.
Israel has now increased its efforts, though. By far the worst bombing Israel has carried out against Lebanon since a full-scale conflict broke out between Israel and Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran, in the summer of 2006.
“This is a region that has already been devastated by war and a country that knows suffering all too well,” Saltmarsh said. “The toll on civilians is unacceptable.”
Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN Human Rights Office, said the agency was “extremely alarmed” by the sharp escalation of hostilities and called on “all parties to immediately cease the violence and to ensure the protection of civilians”.
UNICEF decried the impact of the attack on children.
