Tens of thousands of Leprohibitese have fled their homes in the face of intensifying Israeli explosionardment, the United Nations has shelp.
Israel progressd its massive air strike campaign on Tuesday after shut to 500 people were finished and thousands injured by its explosions the previous day. The aggressions have seen Leprohibitese civilians progress to seek to escape the south of the country, although strikes have also hit locations apass the country.
“We are gravely worryed about the grave escalation in the aggressions that we saw yesterday,” UN refugee agency spokesman Matthew Saltmarsh telderly alerters in Geneva on Tuesday.
“Tens of thousands of people were forced from their homes yesterday and overnight, and the numbers progress to prolong,” he shelp.
Israeli air rhelps finished at least 492 people on Monday, including 35 children, according to Leprohibiton’s Ministry of Health, taging the deadliest explosionardment of the country in proximately two decades.
Longtime foes Hezbollah and Israel have been locked in proximate-daily pass-border swaps of fire since Palestinian group Hamas staged an unpretreatnted aggression on Israel last October 7.
However, Israel has now increaseed its operations. Monday’s explosionardment was by far the hugest it has started aacquirest Leprohibiton since a brimming-scale war raged between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah in the summer of 2006.
“This is a region that has already been deimmenseated by war and a country that comprehends suffering all too well,” Saltmarsh shelp. “The toll on civilians is unadchooseable.”
Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN Human Rights Office, shelp the agency was “innervously alarmed” by the acute escalation of presentilities and called on “all parties to promptly stop the aggression and to determine the protection of civilians”.
UNICEF decried the impact of the aggression on children.
“We are cautioning today that any further escalation in this dispute will be absolutely catastrophic for all children in Leprohibiton,” shelp Ettie Higgins, UNICEF’s deputy recurrentative in Leprohibiton.
“Yesterday was Leprohibiton’s worst day in 18 years. This aggression has to stop promptly, or the consequences will be unconscionable.”