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Lebanon’s representative to the United Nations General Assembly said there was a mass “exodus” of people fleeing. ... exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut's ...
Cars choked Lebanon's highways as people fled into the night, trying to escape north toward the capital Beirut. "It was a day of terror," 41-year-old housewife Thuraya Harb told AFP at a makeshift ...
The UN's refugee agency says one of its staff members and one of her children were killed in an Israeli air strike in eastern Lebanon - one of well over a thousand such strikes over the past two days.
The Maritime Task Force (MTF) is the naval component of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). As of February 2012, the MTF is under the command of Rear Admiral Wagner Lopes de Moraes Zamith of Brazil. [ 47 ] The Brazilian frigate Constituição is the flagship of the fleet comprising vessels from Brazil, Bangladesh, Germany ...
Displaced. ≈300,000. On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$ 15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to ...
The Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon UNSCOL is the political office of the United Nations that organizes the work of the UN in Lebanon.The Special Coordinator for Lebanon is the Secretary-General's representative to the Lebanese Government, as well as to all political parties and the broader diplomatic community hosted in the country.
"As the escalation of hostilities in south Lebanon drags on longer than we had hoped, it has led to further displacement and deepened the already critical needs," Imran Riza, the UN coordinator ...
United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission. The United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission ( UNIIIC) was established on 7 April 2005 by Security Council Resolution 1595 to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafic Hariri, who had been killed in Beirut on 14 February 2005.