Speaking after meeting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in Beirut, Lahbib said over three million people in Lebanon require humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) \u2013 More than half of Lebanon\u2019s population now depends on humanitarian assistance to survive as Israeli attacks continue despite a ceasefire with Hezbollah, European Union crisis management chief Hadja Lahbib said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Speaking after meeting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in Beirut, Lahbib said over three million people in Lebanon require humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt present, more than three million people, meaning more than half of the population here in Lebanon, depend on humanitarian aid to survive,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n
Lahbib said the European Union has provided 100 million euros in assistance since the war began on March 2 and has dispatched six humanitarian aid flights to Lebanon, with a seventh expected on Saturday.<\/p>\n
According to Lebanese authorities, Israeli strikes since early March have killed more than 2,700 people and displaced over one million others.<\/p>\n
The United Nations launched an emergency appeal in March seeking $308 million in aid for Lebanon, but UN agencies say only $126 million has been secured so far.<\/p>\n
Describing the ceasefire as opening \u201ca narrow window of hope,\u201d Lahbib called on Hezbollah to halt its attacks and surrender its weapons, while urging Israel to stop its bombardment campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a ceasefire to lead to peace, courage is needed \u2014 political courage to address the root causes of this conflict,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Israel and Lebanon are expected to hold a third round of talks in Washington next week aimed at ending the conflict, despite Hezbollah\u2019s opposition to direct negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking after meeting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in Beirut, Lahbib said over three million people in Lebanon require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[36080,3361,93,6802],"class_list":{"0":"post-103755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-hadja-lahbib","9":"tag-israeli-attacks-on-lebanon","10":"tag-lebanon","11":"tag-lebanons-hezbollah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116538397672033295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}