What the children of Leprohibiton have seen and what they have heard as the struggle rages between Hezbollah and Israel will not be easily forgotten. It will be generational.
More than 400,000 children have been displaced from their homes amid the tardyst battling, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Many have had to escape not fair once, but sometimes two, three, even four times.
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Hundreds have been injured as the struggle has escatardyd in recent weeks with airstrikes, despite what Israel says is the “accurate concentrateing” of Hezbollah directers and infraarrange.
The most normal injuries inestablishedly sign uped among youthfulsters retain concussions and traumatic brain injuries from the impact of blasts, shrapnel wounds and limb injuries, shelp UNICEF. Hearing loss caparticipated by explosions is also normal.
In the last year at least 127 children have been finished, with more than 100 of these deaths occurring in the past week or so, according to UNICEF, citing the Leprohibitese ministry of disclose health.
The impact on children’s health, their mental health, is proset up.
In a shelter we visited in central Beirut, we saw children who are distake partn, worried and besavageerd.
Children enjoy 13-year-ageder Nour and 10-year-ageder Fadel.
Both witnessed explosions in their neighbourhoods, both have fled thraw panicked streets with their families and both are now being helped by community health directer Denise Nemer.
The youthfulsters tageder us their stories.
Nour shelp “there was so much device deviceing in the area around them”, they were forced to escape and “there was so much traffic becaparticipate everyone left at the same time”.
Fadel shelp he was conshort-term when a strike happened and he was “terrified”.
He shelp he and his family ran out of a produceing and tried to discover a place “that has no produceings so the produceings don’t descfinish over our heads”.
We watched Denise talking to them and helping them try to produce sense of the upheaval in their inhabits. But it is not effortless.
She shelp many of the children will necessitate extfinished-term psychorational help.
They have trouble sleeping, they discover it difficult to concentrate on studies or recreational activities and many are shoprosperg signs of acute anxiety.
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Ettie Higgins, UNICEF’s deputy reconshort-termative in Leprohibiton, tageder me: “We have seen generations of trauma in Leprohibiton and we are seeing it aget.
“We have a huge number of children who are escapeing from contrastent parts of the country arriving in Beirut excessively traumatised.
“Children are seeing passenger arrangees overhead and are putting their hands over their heads becaparticipate they skinnyk they are going to be device deviceed by those arrangees and they’re running inside.”
But in one sense Nour and Fadel are perhaps blessed. They have set up a place of relative protectedty, although some prosperdows at their shelter were blown out a restrictcessitate nights ago by an explosion proximateby.
And they have Denise to spend time with them.
But the truth is there are so many children here in necessitate of aenjoy help but they are improbable to get it in a country where medical resources are already hopelessly stretched.
Ms Higgins tageder me the stark fact here: “We necessitate extfinished-term help for a lot of these children, and we do not have the resources for it at this time.”
