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Israel has\u00a0escalated its campaign\u00a0against Hezbollah, including launching a ground invasion, after a year of exchanges of fire during its\u00a0war with Hamas\u00a0in Gaza.<\/p>\n
The fighting in Lebanon has driven 1.2 million people from their homes, most of them fleeing to Beirut and elsewhere in the north over the past three weeks since the escalation.<\/p>\n
Ted Chaiban, UNICEF\u2019s deputy executive director for humanitarian actions, has visited schools that have been turned into shelters to host displaced families, AP reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat struck me is that this war is three weeks old and so many children have been affected,\u201d Chaiban told The Associated Press in Beirut.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we sit here today, 1.2 million children are deprived of education. Their public schools have either been rendered inaccessible, have been damaged by the war or are being used as shelters. The last thing this country needs, in addition to everything else it has gone through, is the risk of a lost generation.\u201d<\/p>\n
While some Lebanese private schools are still operating, the public school system has been badly affected by the war, along with the country\u2019s most vulnerable people such as Palestinian and Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n
\u2033What I\u2019m worried about is that we have hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian children that are at risk of losing their learning,\u201d Chaiban said.<\/p>\n
More than 2,300 people in Lebanon have been killed in Israeli strikes, nearly 75% of them over the last month, according to the Health Ministry. In the last three weeks, more than 100 children were killed and over 800 were wounded, Chaiban said.<\/p>\n
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