UN: More than 400,000 children have been displaced as a result of fighting in Lebanon

Israel has escalated its campaign against Hezbollah the militant group and the political party that control most of southern Lebanon, including by launching a ground offensive, since for one year it has exchanged fire at the border, at a time when it is in parallel waging war in Gaza against Hamas, the Palestinian group declared terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union.

Hezbollah has been declared a terrorist organisation by the United States, until the European Union has only blacklisted the armed arm, but not the party, which has seats in the Lebanon Parliament.

Fighting in Lebanon has forced 1.2 million people from their homes, most of them have fled to Beirut and other parts of the country's north over the past three weeks, since fighting has escalated.
Ted Chaiban, deputy chief of humanitarian action in U NICEF, has visited schools that have turned into shelters for displaced families.

These three weeks of war have influenced many children”, Chaiban told the Associated Press.

“Exactly, 1.2 million are deprived of schooling. Their public schools are either inconsistent or damaged by war or are being used as shelters. The last thing this country needs is the risk of a missing generation”, he added.

While Lebanese private schools are still operating, the public education system has been hit hard by the war.

More than 2,300 people in Lebanon have been killed during Israeli attacks, almost 75 percent of the victims have registered in the last month, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. In the past three weeks, more than 100 children have been killed and more than 800 have been injured, Chaibani said. REL