{"id":58074,"date":"2026-05-29T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58074"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:27:58","slug":"on-average-11-children-killed-or-injured-every-24-hours-in-past-week-in-lebanon-says-un-childrens-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58074","title":{"rendered":"On average 11 children killed or injured every 24 hours in past week in Lebanon, says UN children&#8217;s agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GENEVA, May 29 &#8211; An average \u200bof 11 children have been killed \u200cor injured every 24 hours in Lebanon in the last week, as Israel expanded strikes \u200bacross the country in spite of \u200ba ceasefire being in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heavy Israeli strikes \u2060hit towns and villages in southern \u200bLebanon overnight on Wednesday and into Thursday, \u200bafter Israel declared a new swathe of the area &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israel-declares-new-swathe-lebanon-a-combat-zone-warns-residents-leave-2026-05-27\/\">a combat zone<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, an Israeli strike hit a \u200bbuilding in the southern suburbs of \u200bBeirut amid a ceasefire that has failed to \u200chalt \u2060fighting between Israeli troops and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/hezbollah-pays-steep-price-battle-reverse-its-fortunes-2026-05-03\/\">Hezbollah<\/a>&nbsp;in south Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 77 children have been killed or injured in the last seven days, \u200bUNICEF said. \u200bSince \u2060the ceasefire began in April 55 children have been killed, and \u200b212 injured, according to the \u200bagency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNICEF \u2060spokesperson Ricardo Pires described the toll as \u201cstaggering\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ceasefire announced by Washington on April 16 \u2060was \u200bmeant to halt the war \u200braging between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah since March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) GENEVA, May 29 &#8211; An average \u200bof 11 children have been killed \u200cor injured every 24 hours in Lebanon in the last week, as Israel expanded strikes \u200bacross the country in spite of \u200ba ceasefire being in place. Heavy Israeli strikes \u2060hit towns and villages in southern \u200bLebanon overnight on Wednesday and into Thursday, \u200bafter Israel declared a new swathe of the area &#8220;a combat zone&#8220;. On Thursday, an Israeli strike hit a \u200bbuilding in the southern suburbs of \u200bBeirut amid a ceasefire that has failed to \u200chalt \u2060fighting between Israeli troops and&nbsp;Hezbollah&nbsp;in south Lebanon. A total of 77&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58076,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58074\/revisions\/58076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}