UNICEF: The war in Lebanon displaced more than 400,000 children in 3 weeks
reported Mehr News Agency quoted website Russia Elium, Children’s Fund Organization The United Nations (UNICEF) announced that more than 400,000 Lebanese children have been displaced by the war in the past three weeks and warned that Lebanon is at risk of losing a generation It is facing children.
During a visit to schools that have been converted into settlement centers for displaced families, Ted Sheban, deputy executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said: “What surprised me is that this war has only been three weeks old and so many children have been affected. .”
He added: “As we sit here today, 1.2 million children are deprived of education. access to formal schools has become very difficult; Some of these schools have been damaged by the war or are used as shelters.”
He stated: “The last thing this country needs, after all the suffering it has gone through, is the risk of losing a generation.”
In now that some private schools Lebanon remains open, the public school system has been severely affected by the war, especially for vulnerable people such as Palestinian and Syrian refugees.
Sheiban stated: “What worries me is that hundreds of thousands of Lebanese children, Syrian and Palestinians are at risk of losing education.”
According to the Ministry of Health, more than 2300 people died in Lebanon as a result of the Zionist airstrikes. have been killed, nearly 75% of them in the last month.
Shiban said that more than 100 children were killed and more than 800 others were injured in the last three weeks.
He added: “Displaced children are together in overcrowded shelters; A place where three or four families live in one classroom and only a plastic cover separates them. In this situation, a thousand people can share only 12 toilets
He explained: “Most displaced children have witnessed a lot of violence, including the sounds of explosions or gunfire, so that every sound Height they are afraid.”
Shiban also mentioned that in the last three weeks, 26 water stations that supply water to 350,000 people were damaged. have seen And UNICEF is working with local authorities to repair these stations.
He emphasized the protection of civilian infrastructure and the immediate cessation of conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza and said: “There must be political will and it should be understood that these conflicts cannot be resolved through military means.” »
Shiban believes: “What we need to do is to make sure this madness stops and a ceasefire is established, before this level of destruction, pain, suffering and Let’s get a death like we witnessed in Gaza.”
He Finally added: “Despite all these needs, the emergency aid request of 108 million Our dollar in Lebanon is only 8% secured, that too after three weeks since the beginning of the escalation of conflicts.”
