The pinnacle of the United Nations refugee company arrived in Lebanon on Saturday on a “solidarity” go to for the a whole bunch of hundreds of Lebanese affected by Israeli bombardment and needing worldwide assist.
UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi mentioned on social community X that “Lebanon faces a horrible disaster” as “a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals are left destitute or displaced by Israeli air strikes”.
“I’ve come right here in solidarity with these affected, to assist the humanitarian effort and to ask for extra worldwide assist,” he mentioned.
Additionally Saturday, UN humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon Imran Riza warned concerning the influence of the strikes on well being care, as Israel hits what it says are Hezbollah targets.
“All through the previous days we now have been witnessing an alarming enhance in assaults in opposition to well being care” in Lebanon, Riza mentioned in an announcement on X.
“Well being employees are paying the heaviest value with their lives. The well being system is getting ready to collapsing,” he warned.
A day earlier, not less than 4 hospitals in Lebanon introduced the suspension of companies amid ongoing Israeli bombardment.
Rescuers from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Well being Committee mentioned 11 personnel had been killed in Israeli raids in south Lebanon.
South Lebanon’s Salah Ghandour Hospital, which is run by the Islamic Well being Committee, mentioned 9 of its medical and nursing workers had been wounded by strikes on Friday after it acquired an Israeli warning to evacuate.
The Israeli military mentioned Saturday its air pressure “struck Hezbollah terrorists who had been working inside a command centre that was situated inside a mosque adjoining to the Salah Ghandour Hospital”.
Israeli military Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee had warned Friday on X that “in current days, we now have noticed the growing use of rescue autos by Hezbollah members to move operatives and gear for combating”.
“Hezbollah makes use of ambulances from the Islamic Well being Committee for terrorist functions”, he mentioned, warning that “any car confirmed to have an armed operative utilizing it… shall be subjected to applicable measures”.
On Thursday, Lebanon’s Well being Minister Firass Abiad mentioned 97 rescuers had been killed since Hezbollah and Israel started combating in October, together with greater than 40 paramedics and firefighters killed by Israeli hearth in simply three days.
On Friday, the World Well being Group’s regional director Hanan Balkhy mentioned on X that an airlift landed at Beirut airport with 30 tonnes of medical provides. It was the primary such cargo for the reason that Israel-Hezbollah escalation started in late September.
Lebanon’s well being ministry mentioned Saturday it had acquired medical assist from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, in addition to from the United Nations.
