Middle East On The Brink.
“Many children remain “missing under rubble” and caught “on dangerous roads” after Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, the UN children’s agency warned, as the country suffered its deadliest day since 2006.
More children were killed in Lebanon in one day on Monday than in the entire past year, Ettie Higgins, UNICEF Deputy Representative for Lebanon Ettie Higgins told a UN briefing Tuesday.
UNICEF has received reports that many Lebanese children “slept in cars and on the sides of roads” on Monday night after thousands of families were displaced from their homes in southern Lebanon, Higgins said. ”
The surprise Israeli pager attack last week caught Hezbollah and the rest of the foreign policy establishment completely off guard. The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, since the pager attack and the subsequent device explosions, has been intense. The Biden Administration is working overtime to try and quell the conflict in the final stretches of the 2024 election. The rest of the World watches and dreads for the other shoe to drop whatever that may be.
