(4 Oct 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 4 October 2024
1. Various of plane loaded with medical aid on tarmac
2. Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad with WHO (World Health Organization) and UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) officials on tarmac
3. Various of offloading of medical aid from plane
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Firas Abiad, Lebanese Caretaker Health Minister: ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
“We are here at the airport today. We are receiving the first shipment out of many. This is a shipment that has been organized by the WHO and UNHCR and supported by the United Arab Emirates. It contains 40 tons of medical supplies, mainly trauma kits that will be crucial to support the hospitals as they receive the casualties from the Israeli attacks on Lebanon.“
5. Various of offloading medical aid from plane
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ivo Freijsen, UNHCR Representative in Lebanon:
“It’s extremely important that we’re receiving a first batch of urgently needed medical supply. These are trauma kits and again, it’s important that we are able to ramp this up further to help Lebanon, the Lebanese and other population groups at this time of crisis."
7. Various of offloading of medical aid from plane
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdinasir Abubakar, WHO representative for Lebanon:
“We, as UN, our role is to help the Ministry of Health as well as the hospitals, to give them the tools that they need to save lives. At the end of the day, we would like to impact…we would like to make an impact to the people who are impacted for the crisis and make sure that at least people who are coming to the hospitals, they need the services that they need at the hospital. As you know, more and more hospitals now are reaching to the, you know, the overwhelmed, actually, I have to say, because of the increased number of injuries.”
9. Various of medical aid on tarmac
STORYLINE:
A plane carrying 40 tons of medical aid arrived in Beirut on Friday as Israel widened its ground operation against Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) are providing the aid that were donated by the United Arab Emirates to the Lebanese government, which will distribute it to the hospitals that are receiving the wounded.
Lebanese Caretaker Health Minister Dr Firas Abiad was at the airport to receive the supplies.
“It contains 40 tons of medical supplies, mainly trauma kits that will be crucial to support the hospitals as they receive the casualties from the Israeli attacks on Lebanon,” he said
On Tuesday, Israel began a ground incursion into Lebanon against the Hezbollah militant group.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage.
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon in the past year, most of them since Sept. 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
AP video by Mohammad Anouty
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