In the last two days, there have been well over a thousand such strikes.
According to the UNHCR, Monday saw damage to Dina Darwiche’s house. The organization stated that after being rescued, her husband and her older kid are receiving critical care at a hospital.
Ms. Darwiche spent twelve years working for the UNHCR in the Bekaa office.
In the meantime, Ali Basma, a cleaner for the UNHCR office in Tyre, in the southern city, also perished.
Their killing “outraged and deeply saddened” the agency, according to a statement.
“Hundreds of civilian lives are now being relentlessly claimed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon,” stated Filippo Grandi, worldwide head of UNHCR, on Tuesday.
It grieves me to confirm that yesterday saw the deaths of two more UNHCR coworkers.
The friends of Ms. Darwiche called her “the kindest and gentlest soul we knew.”
For as long as I can recall, she had been committed to her humanitarian work with UNHCR,” Lebanese American University professor Jasmin Lilian Diab wrote on X. “I am shattered. I’m completely ruined.
