(12 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 3 October 2024
1. Person sitting inside a tent
2. Person in a makeshift tent
3. Beach and playground
4. Various of a person in a makeshift shelter
5. Tents on the beach
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 12 October, 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of World Food Program:
“What I’ve witnessed today and what I also heard is really devastating, but what it also says is that it can get even worse, and so I think what we appeal for is diplomatic efforts, all diplomatic efforts possible to try to find a political solution.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 11 October, 2024
7. Various of meals being distributed to displaced people
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 12 October, 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of World Food Program:
“Well, we have huge concerns and they are many, but one of them is indeed that we need the ports and we need supply routes to continue to be able to operate. So that’s something that we are always insisting on and calling for.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baabda, Lebanon – 3 October, 2024
9. School that was turned into a shelter
10. Person in a canteen
11. Meals for displaced people
12. People in a corridor
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 12 October, 2024
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of World Food Program:
“I think there’s been those commitments but of course this is a very changing environment so we don’t take anything for granted. And so, we continue to engage with all partners, including the Israelis, to insist on IHR (international health regulations) and humanitarian principles to be respected. In that regard we have always insisted on the importance of keeping the infrastructure that is required for humanitarian support protected.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 3 October, 2024
14. Various of displaced people using a nightclub as a shelter
15. Exterior of nightclub
STORYLINE:
A top official for the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) said that he is concerned that Lebanon’s ports and airport might be taken out of service bringing serious implications for getting food supplies into the county.
“What I have seen and heard today is devastating, but the sense is that this can get much worse still, and that needs to be avoided,” said Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said after a visit to Beirut.
He appealed for “all diplomatic efforts possible to try to find a political solution” to the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and for supply lines to remain open.
In Gaza, where Israel has been at war with Hamas since the Palestinian militant group launched a deadly incursion into southern Israel a year ago, hunger has skyrocketed as humanitarian organizations have complained of major obstacles to getting food and other supplies into the blockaded enclave.
Skau said he believes that Israeli authorities had given “commitments” that in Lebanon, the ports and airport would not be taken out of commission.
“Of course this is a very changing environment, so we don’t take anything for granted,” he added.
In recent weeks, Israel has escalated its aerial bombardment and launched a ground invasion in Lebanon.
About 1.2 million people are displaced in Lebanon, according to government estimates, of whom some 200,000 are staying in collective shelters, where the World Food Program is supplying them with meals.
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