(6 Oct 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 06 October 2024
1. Wide of news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
"This is a major displacement crisis, as you all know, caused by this situation. The government… all these figures are estimates, as you can imagine, especially when it comes to internal displacement, which is difficult to count, prime minister. The government has been using 1.2 million."
3. Cutaway of photographer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
"The government has asked the U.N. to mobilize resources. The U.N. humanitarian agencies issued an appeal for about half a (US) billion dollars for three months only. So, this is really only the beginning, because we don’t know what will happen next, and I heard just now that so far already 40% is funded."
5. Wide of news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
"We need we need respect for civilian infrastructure and civilian population. Unfortunately, many instances of violations of international humanitarian law in the way the airstrikes are conducted that have destroyed or damaged civilian infrastructure."
7. Cutaway of Grandi on camera screen
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“You have a humanitarian challenge due to displacement, but also a humanitarian challenge. And I would say human rights challenges due to the impossibility of being displaced, you’re prevented from fleeing by the circumstances. And by the way, the bombing of the off the road, which has de facto blocked many people from seeking safety in Syria, is another example. What the. What is the evolution of the situation here and the possibility of these people?"
9. Wide of news conference
STORYLINE:
U.N. refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said during a visit to Beirut on Sunday that Lebanon was seeing a "major displacement crisis" as a result of Israel’s escalating air campaign in the country, and that some of the strikes have violated international law.
Lebanese government officials estimate that 1.2 million people are now displaced. The U.N. has appealed for nearly half a billion dollars to respond to the humanitarian crisis, of which Grandi said about 40% had been funded.
The head of the refugee agency, also known as UNHCR, said there had been "many instances of violations of international humanitarian law in the way the airstrikes have been conducted that have destroyed or damaged civilian infrastructure."
Two UNHCR workers have also been killed in the strikes.
Grandi said that a strike that cut access to a major border crossing between Lebanon and Syria had also created an obstacle for civilians attempting to flee to safety.
Israel has maintained that it is targeting Hezbollah figures and weapons in the air strikes and ground incursion it has launched in Lebanon.
The escalating violence has pushed both Lebanese citizens and Syrian refugees in Lebanon to cross the border en masse.
AP video by Fadi Tawil and produced by Abby Sewell
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