Humanitarian access to southern Lebanon severely restricted, markets have collapsed: UN official

Nearly 63% of planned humanitarian convoys to southern Lebanon have not been completed due to negative or absent responses to deconfliction requests, a senior UN official said Tuesday, warning that aid delivery is severely hampered by escalating violence, Anadolu reports. “Nearly 63% of planned humanitarian convoys to southern Lebanon have not been completed due to negative or absent response or deconfliction requests… Even when convoys are cleared, our teams are being stopped at multiple holding points. Last week, one of our convoy missions took 15 hours to complete,” Samer AbdelJaber, regional director for the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe at the World Food Program (WFP), told lawmakers in Brussels during a session at the European Parliament Committee on […]