Lebanon continues to face a severe food security crisis amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, according to the country director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Lebanon.
“War worsens hunger. What we are seeing is a large number of people who do not know where their next meal will come from,” Allison Oman Lawi told CNN.
More than 1 million people have been displaced across Lebanon since the beginning of the war with Iran, Lawi said.
“We are seeing many frightened families with children living in state-managed shelters, with friends and relatives, or even in public spaces, and who desperately want to return to their homes.”
The WFP and the Lebanese government are working to feed displaced people, while food prices are rising and markets are struggling to keep shelves supplied, she added, stressing that the problem is particularly severe in the south of the country.
Israel has carried out near-daily strikes on targets it considers linked to Hezbollah since the beginning of the war, killing more than 2,000 people in Lebanon, according to the country’s Ministry of Health. Hezbollah, in turn, has responded by launching rockets toward border areas.
“This is a humanitarian crisis, and we need the world to understand that families are the victims at this moment,” Lawi said. “What we hope for now is a peaceful solution.”
“This is a humanitarian crisis, and we need the world to understand that families are the victims at this moment,” Lawi said.
