Brussels (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – EU High Representative Josep Borrell says the crisis in Lebanon is getting worse by the day.
The circumstances in Lebanon are getting worse by the day, the European Union’s foreign chief Josep Borrell described to the European Parliament on 08 Oct 2024, adding a ceasefire should be attained. According to statistics, some 20 per cent of the Lebanese population had been compelled to move, he expressed. A World Food Programme official also expressed concern about Lebanon’s capacity to feed itself, saying thousands of hectares of farmland across the country’s south have burned or been dumped amid escalating hostilities.
How has the war in Gaza impacted children, according to Borrell?
A day earlier, he told the EU Parliament that children are the most frequent targets of the war in Gaza. “I will not give you any more details than you already know. Unfortunately, humanitarian aid is currently at a minimum. Only 17 trucks per day have been detected passing through Kerem Shalom and 6 via Shechem” he said.
what role is the EU playing in Gaza’s humanitarian crisis?
Further, he stated, that there is another serious humanitarian crisis there, a humanitarian problem that has also deserved a huge amount of aid from the European Union. Borell expressed: “We are the main providers of aid, with more than 330 million [euros] in 2023 and 2024. [We have] more than 60 flights of our humanitarian aid air bridge, having started our Civil Protection unit more than 10 times since 7 October. Together with the Member States, we are the largest donors of humanitarian assistance to Gaza. However, the situation today is no longer just the continuation of the war, and the humanitarian aid that can be delivered, but the lack of political perspective.”
Last week, Israel undertook what it called a limited ground operation into southern Lebanon after a series of raids killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and most of his leading commanders. The fighting is the most destructive since Israel and Hezbollah battled a month-long war in 2006. Beirut’s skyline lit up with new airstrikes, a day after Israel’s most serious bombardment of the southern suburbs understood as the Dahiyeh since it escalated its air campaign on Sept. 23.
