19,000 children displaced daily in Lebanon amid escalating violence: UNICEF

An average of 19,000 children have been displaced every day in Lebanon over the past three weeks amid ongoing Israeli strikes, a UNICEF official said Friday, Anadolu reports. “In just three weeks, more than 370,000 children have been forced out of their homes in Lebanon, an average of at least 19,000 girls and boys displaced every single day,” said Marcoluigi Corsi, UNICEF representative in Lebanon, during a UN briefing in Geneva. To grasp the scale, he explained, this is the equivalent of “hundreds of school buses filled with children fleeing for their lives every 24 hours.” Corsi said the crisis has displaced roughly 20% of Lebanon’s population in less than a month, with more than one million people uprooted. “The […]