The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that 35 children were killed in Israeli occupation attacks on Lebanon on Monday, noting that this number is greater than what the country has recorded in the past 11 months.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Ettie Higgins, UNICEF’s Deputy Representative in Lebanon, confirmed that the Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon since Monday morning have negative effects on the physical and mental health of children.
She continued: “There were reports of the killing of 35 children in Lebanon yesterday alone, which is more than the number of children killed in Lebanon in the past 11 months.”
Higgins indicated that countless children in Lebanon are at risk and face continuous attacks, adding that children have been displaced from their homes and are in a very difficult situation, and they cannot rely on the health system which lacks resources. Any further escalation will form a disaster for all children in Lebanon.
Since Monday morning; The Israeli occupation forces have been waging the most violent and extensive aggression on Lebanon since the beginning of the confrontations with Hezbollah about a year ago, resulting in 558 deaths, including 50 children and 94 women, and 1,835 wounded, according to the latest data from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Hezbollah and Palestinian factions in Lebanon are demanding an end to the war of extermination that the Israeli occupation has been waging with American support on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, which has left more than 137,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and a deadly famine.
