Israel’s escalated assault on Lebanon is killing three children each day on average, the UN children’s agency reports, as Israel’s intensified bombardments and raids take a horrific toll on the country.

Over 200 children have been killed in Lebanon over the past two months of Israel’s expanded aggression in Lebanon, according to UNICEF. This amounts to over three child deaths per day on average.

At a press conference, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder detailed child killings from every day of the past week of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, ending with an attack on Sunday in which two 4-year-old twin girls were killed.

“Despite more than 200 children killed in Lebanon in less than two months, a disconcerting pattern has emerged: their deaths are met with inertia from those able to stop this violence. For the children of Lebanon, it has become a silent normalization of horror,” said Elder. “In Lebanon, much the same as has become the case in Gaza, the intolerable is quietly transforming into the acceptable.”

Since October of 2023, Lebanon’s Health Ministry has documented 231 children killed and 1,330 injured, as Israel has pounded Lebanon with bombs, targeting civilian areas in Beirut and across southern Lebanon.

In all, Israel has killed 3,500 people in Lebanon and injured nearly 15,000. Israel has also forced over 1 million people to be displaced, including an estimated 400,000 children. The Israeli military’s targeting of Lebanon’s health care system is especially severe, with at least 286 Israeli attacks on health care in the........

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