UN Refugee Agency says 2 staffers killed in latest Israel air strikes in Lebanon

Security forces and medical teams arrive in the area after the Israeli army targeted the 4th and 5th floors of a building in the Ghobeiry municipality, where Hezbollah is strong in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon on September 24, 2024 [Ahmad Laila – Anadolu Agency]

The chief of the UN Refugee Agency confirmed, Tuesday, that two staffers were among the hundreds who have been killed in the latest Israeli air strikes in Lebanon, Anadolu Agency reports.

“Israeli air strikes in Lebanon are now relentlessly claiming hundreds of civilian lives. And I am very saddened to confirm that two UNHCR colleagues were also killed yesterday,” Filippo Grandi wrote on X.

Grandi extended condolences to their families, friends and colleagues on behalf of all at the UNHCR.

The Israeli army has launched waves of deadly air strikes against Lebanon since early Monday, killing at least 558 people, including 95 women and 50 children, and injuring 1,835.

Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, which has killed more than 41,400 victims, mostly women and children, following a cross-border attack by Hamas last 7 October.

The international community has warned against the strikes on Lebanon, as they raise the spectre of spreading the Gaza conflict regionally.

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