A supply of medical provides from the United Nations reached Lebanon on Friday, a primary since final week’s escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, stated a UN company and a Lebanese minister.
“An airlift… landed in Beirut earlier this morning with 30 metric tonnes of trauma and surgical provides, sufficient to deal with tens of hundreds folks,” the World Well being Group’s regional director Hanan Balkhy stated on social media platform X.
“Extra flights are arriving later at the moment and tomorrow, carrying trauma provides, cholera provides and psychological well being provides,” she added.
Quickly esclating Israeli strikes since September 23, concentrating on Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, have killed greater than 1,100 folks in Lebanon and wounded a whole lot extra, based on an AFP tally of official figures.
Lebanese authorities stated the violence has additionally displaced multiple million folks from their houses within the tiny Mediterranean nation, already mired in financial and political crises.
Well being Minister Firass Abiad was on the Beirut airport on Friday to obtain the help organised by the World Well being Group and UN refugee company UNHCR and funded by the United Arab Emirates.
“We’re receiving the primary cargo out of many,” he stated.
The cargo included “many trauma kits that might be essential to help the hospitals as they obtain the casualties from the Israeli assaults on Lebanon,” he added.
