Lebanon Faces Severe Escalation as UN Flags Rising Violence
“We keep talking about escalations. This is another huge escalation upon the escalations that we've been facing,” Imran Riza, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon, told journalists.
“So the needs are huge and but the basic need is to try and get some de escalation, to try and get some stop, some halt to this. But, we are very, very worried.”
Riza noted that earlier confusion over whether the ceasefire applied to Lebanon quickly gave way to worsening conditions on the ground.
“We woke up today … to news of the ceasefire … and then somehow the developments of today have been dramatically, dramatically different,” he said, adding that “the sounds over the last three hours … are ambulances” across Beirut.
He reported that an early morning strike on a cafe in the southern city of Sidon killed eight people, alongside more than a dozen other airstrikes preceding a broader escalation.
“The majority of people right now are not in shelters,” Riza emphasized, noting that cash assistance is the most effective way to support displaced civilians staying with relatives or renting accommodation.
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