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Over 370,000 children displaced in Lebanon

A bulldozer clears rubble from a street at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

More than 370,000 children have been forced from their homes in Lebanon amid Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah, according to Reuters, with at least 121 children killed and 399 injured, UNICEF’s representative in Lebanon, Marcoluigi Corsi, said on Friday.

A UNHCR official estimates that about 150,000 people are isolated in Lebanon after the destruction of bridges.

An official told Reuters: “We have seen increasingly worrying rhetoric concerning activities in southern Lebanon by the Israeli army and authorities.