“Lebanon already welcomes nearly a million and a half Syrian refugees, there are nearly five million people in need of humanitarian aid,” recalls Jean-François Corty, Sunday on franceinfo, while the Israeli strikes continue.
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, is expected in Beirut on the evening of Sunday September 29 to assess the state of the humanitarian emergency. On site, Israeli strikes continue. According to the president of Médecins du monde, Jean-François Corty, guest of franceinfo, “we can estimate that there are at least between 100,000 and 200,000 additional displaced people” with the increase in tensions in southern Lebanon.
“Lebanon already hosts nearly a million and a half Syrian refugees, there are nearly five million people in need of humanitarian aid,” he recalls. In recent days, we have counted “nearly 800 dead, at least 2 000 injured, around a hundred women and children. It also counts “around fifteen rescuers and two humanitarian workers from the High Commission for Refugees who were killed”.
On site, humanitarian teams are “relatively safe”the geographical location of Beirut and Lebanon allows the population to leave the country. She is heading “particularly towards Syria, which was not the case in Gaza, where it was a blockade and a siege preventing population movements outside the territory and therefore subject to very high mortality due to intense bombardments”he specifies.
Jean-François Corty still mentions “security anxiety for our teams” with nearly 70 humanitarian workers working on site. “We don’t want to have another doctor dying under bombs,” recalling that in Gaza “nearly 300 humanitarian workers died”.