Geneva - Saba:
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that 13 percent of all hospitals in Lebanon have ceased operations or reduced their services, drastically reducing access to basic health care.
In a statement, the organization confirmed 136 attacks on health facilities since last October, resulting in the death of 212 health workers, with 70 people killed last week.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that civilians, aid workers, and health workers in Lebanon continue to be affected by the intensification of Zionist attacks throughout the country, with attacks on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, continuing to be subjected to air strikes, causing more people to flee their homes.
UN health partners in Lebanon continue to support the government-led response. As of 14 November, more than 300 health centers had received medicines to help the displaced.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and its partners said 1 million people are in dire need of water and sanitation support across the country, UNICEF helping since mid-September to rehabilitate water facilities that reached 1.5 million people.
Since September this year, UNHCR reported distributing more than 428,000 relief items to some 230,000 displaced people across Lebanon.
Lebanon has been subjected for more than a year to Zionist aggression, the frequency of which has increased since the end of last September, which led to the death and injury of thousands of civilians, and the displacement of more than one million people.
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