UN Says 400,000 Children Displaced Since Israeli Airstrikes in Lebanon

Amid the conflict, the Israeli military says it has given evacuation notices to schools and hospitals being used by Hezbollah as command centers.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on Oct. 13, 2024, amid the continuing war between Hezbollah and Israel. AFP via Getty Images

A United Nations official has reported that of the 1.2 million people in Lebanon who have been displaced over the last three weeks because of the “horrendous escalation in violence,” 400,000 are children.

Ted Chaiban, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) deputy executive director, said in a post published on Oct. 15 on social media platform X that it’s a conflict “that has turned into war.”