An estimated 140,000 children have been displaced just this week by Israeli bombings in Lebanon, attacks that have killed close to 700 people and pushed the region to the precipice of a full-scale war.
Save the Children, a leading humanitarian group, said Thursday that the 140,000 kids forced from their homes over the past four days bring Lebanon’s total number of displaced children to at least 175,000 people. Overall, half a million people have been displaced in Lebanon in the nearly 12 months of sustained violence that followed the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel.
Jennifer Moorehead, Save the Children’s country director in Lebanon, said that “many children’s lives, rights and futures have already been turned upside down and now their capacity to cope with this escalating crisis has been eroded.”
“Children are telling us that it feels like danger is everywhere, and they can never be safe. Every loud sound makes them jump now,” said Moorehead. “It is still possible to avert a humanitarian catastrophe, but we must act now. We urge all parties to immediately de-escalate tensions and for........