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Non-governmental organization Save the children warned on Tuesday that about 345,000 Lebanese children are at risk because of renewed fighting between Israel and the Shiite party Hezbollah, a day after intensive Wave of Israeli bombings those close to the country will go against 500 dead and more than 1,600 injured.

“Our worst nightmare is becoming reality”said the director of an NGO in Lebanon, Jennifer Moorhead who emphasized this “The boys and girls of Lebanon have felt the pain of war inevitable since October last yearand in the last days their lives have been turned upside down, explosions in densely populated areas.”

Our worst nightmare has come true.

An estimated 492 people were killed, at least 35 of them children, and more than 1,700 were wounded in Israeli strikes yesterday #Lebanon.

Children live in fear, families are desperate to flee, all schools are closed. pic.twitter.com/SIp0GO6vFp

— Save the Children International (@save_children) September 24, 2024

Thus, he explained that Israeli attacks on dozens of cities in the country called “Families are desperate to escape, “They carry what they can carry.”

Girls and boys cry, terrified by the sounds of drones and fighter jets overhead. They feel that danger is everywhere and that they will never be safe.

At least 37 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday, including three children and seven women https://t.co/A06OQGxkPT pic.twitter.com/EHjj8gQCkJ

— Reuters (@Reuters) September 21, 2024

In this sense, Save the children claimed that Families of its employees in southern Lebanon are trapped because the roads are damaged by air raids, and schools announced to close starting this tuesday open many of them Such centres, such as temporary shelters, affect almost 1.5 million Lebanese children.

«Many of those fleeing are already vulnerable, between them women, children and refugees “who have been living as displaced persons for several months now,” Moorhead said.

This is a significant and horrific escalation, but we must remember that children in southern Lebanon have suffered from cross-border violence and have lived in fear for years.

For this reason, the organization emphasized that any escalation of military action will mean “unacceptable” human casualties, before insisting that “as always, “Boys and girls will bear the brunt of the conflict.”

We urge all parties to respect international humanitarian law and bring this crisis to an immediate end. All parties must protect civilians and focus diplomatic efforts on bringing lasting peace to all communities in the region.