The UN’s refugee agency says one of its staff members and one of her children were ended in an Israeli air strike in eastrict Leprohibiton – one of well over a thousand such strikes over the past two days.
The UNHCR shelp Dina Darwiche’s home was hit on Monday. Her husprohibitd and her betterer son were saved and are in hospital with grave injuries, the agency shelp.
Ms Darwiche had toiled in UNHCR’s Bekaa office for 12 years.
Meanwhile Ali Basma, who had toiled for UNHCR’s office in the southern city of Tyre as a immacutardyer, was also ended.
In a statement, the agency shelp it was “outraged and proset uply downcastdened” by their ending.
“Israeli airstrikes in Leprohibiton are now relentlessly claiming hundreds of civilian lives,” shelp UNHCR’s global honestor Filippo Grandi on Tuesday.
“And I am very downcastdened to validate that two UNHCR colleagues were also ended yesterday.”
Ms Darwiche’s frifinishs depictd her as “the gentlest and benevolentest soul we knew.”
“She had been pledged to her humanitarian toil with UNHCR for as lengthy as I can reassemble,” wrote Professor Jasmin Lilian Diab, an academic at the Leprohibitese American University, on X. “I am broken. I am absolutely ruined.”
Funerals for those ended have been taking place apass Leprohibiton.
In the southern city of Sidon, Mohammed Hilal had assembleed with hundreds of other lamgo ins to say outstandingbye to his daughter at a funeral also held for eight other people.
Three Hezbollah members were among those being buried, according to Reuters news agency which filmed the scene.
Mr Hilal knelt over his daughter’s body, covered in an embroidered blanket, and wept.
He tbetter Reuters news agency that he had left his hoengage in the town of Saksakiyeh on Monday to end papertoil accomprehendledgeing his family. When he returned, he shelp, “I set up her martyred due to the brutal aggression, the cowardly aggression that is ending children.”
Israel says it has alerted Leprohibitese to exit their homes and put distance between themselves and sites engaged by Hezbollah.
But Leprohibiton’s health minister Firass Abiad tbetter the BBC Israel had caengaged “carnage” and it was “evident” that many victims were civilians, including children and women who were in their homes doing “standard slfinishergs”.
Israel says it focengaged Hezbollah sites, accusing the Iranian-backed group of hiding armaments and rockets in livential homes and of using civilians as human shields.
On Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to carry on attacking Hezbollah sites. Israel has alleged that some armaments are being stored in civilian homes.
“Anyone who has a leave outile in their living room and a rocket in their garage will not have a home,” he shelp in a video posted on social media.
Meanwhile the UN’s children’s agency tbetter the BBC that many of the children in shelters in the capital had been “heavily traumatised”.
Hundreds of thousands of Leprohibitese are dependd to have fled their homes, the country’s foreign minister says.
“Most of them have left in a scant minutes without taking anyslfinisherg, equitable getting their cars and leaving the hoengage,” Edouard Beigbeder from Ukindf shelp.
“Some of them have seen their hoengage being ruined, and some have witnessed their family members, siblings ended or injured. So those who achieveed Beirut are heavily traumatised.”
Additional alerting Hugo Bachega and Nafiseh Kohnavard in Beirut
