Media quote by UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon

"We continue to witness an alarming level of human costs and humanitarian consequences of conflict in Lebanon.

In the past week alone, at least 241 people have been killed and 642 injured due to Israeli airstrikes, according to the Ministry of Public Health. 

The current picture of life in Lebanon remains grim. Yesterday, airstrikes reportedly killed 23 people, including seven children, in the village of Aalmat in Mount Lebanon.

On the same day, an airstrike in the city of Tyre killed five siblings from the same family, all of whom had special needs.

In the past month, more than 185,000 people have fled their homes in their search for safety within the country, bringing the total to over 870,000 people internally displaced. There are still people, amongst them elderly and infirm, staying behind amidst the ruins of their ancestral homes.  

Protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure must be assured, international humanitarian law must be respected, this violence must stop now."

• Imran Riza, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon