In addition to attacks on areas sheltering civilians, airstrikes on health facilities and workers continue to be recorded by WHO, interrupting operations in 127 health facilities and eight hospitals, and reducing the functionality of nine hospitals.
The Humanitarian Country Team in Lebanon, led by the Humanitarian Coordinator and supplementing national efforts, continues to respond to the humanitarian needs of the people affected by the increase in hostilities in Lebanon.
Against the backdrop of ongoing hostilities along the Blue Line, the members of the Security Council condemned the several incidents that impacted the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) positions and injured UNIFIL peacekeepers in the past weeks, including the ones on 29 October, 7 November and 8 November.
يواصل الفريق الإنساﻧﻲ ﻓﻲ لبنان، بقيادة منسق الشؤون الإنسانية واستكمالًا للجهود الوطنية، جهود الاستجابة للاحتياجات الإنسانية المتفاقمة للأشخاص المتضررين والنازحين نتيجة تصعيد الأعمال العدائية ﻓﻲ لبنان.
The people I have met in recent days–from those in Gaza City, to the displaced in eastern Lebanon, to those crossing into Syria–longed for peace so they could return home. Children spoke of how much they missed school and their friends, and parents wished for an end to the precarity and suffering that displacement has brought. The suffering of millions cannot begin to end until those in power push for peace and take action to end the violence.
Since October 8 there has been an increase in cross-border incidents between Israel and Lebanon, resulting in the displacement of people both within the South and elsewhere within the country.
Insecurity Insight identified 194 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Lebanon between 08 October 2023 and 27 October 2024. In these incidents, health facilities were damaged or destroyed on 75 occasions.
The use of explosive weapons in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Lebanon was so frequent that it was difficult in many cases to attribute civilian casualties to specific incidents of use, as required by the methodology for this data collection.
The Humanitarian Country Team in Lebanon, led by the Humanitarian Coordinator and supplementing national efforts, continues to respond to the humanitarian needs of the people affected by the increase in hostilities in Lebanon.
يواصل الفريق الإنساﻧﻲ ﻓﻲ لبنان، بقيادة منسق الشؤون الإنسانية واستكمالًا للجهود الوطنية، جهود الاستجابة للاحتياجات الإنسانية المتفاقمة للأشخاص المتضررين والنازحين نتيجة تصعيد الأعمال العدائية ﻓﻲ لبنان.
The deployment of white phosphorus munitions, as recently documented over al-Bustan, a village in Lebanon near the Israeli border, underscores the urgent need to address the humanitarian impact of incendiary weapons within modern warfare.
Today, the ICJ and other non-governmental organizations call on Member States of the UN Human Rights Council to urgently convene a Special Session on the situation in Lebanon to establish an international investigative mechanism into all violations of humanitarian and human rights law committed in the ongoing conflict.
Since October 8 there has been an increase in cross-border incidents between Israel and Lebanon, resulting in the displacement of people both within the South and elsewhere within the country.
Israeli airstrikes left at least 52 people dead and 161 injured in a 24-hour period on 6-7 November, bringing the total death toll to 3,103 dead and 13,856 injured since October 2023, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.
