Lebanon: Medical aid arrives in Beirut amid intensifying Israeli strikes

As Lebanon suffered another night of heavy Israeli bombing, UN humanitarians and partners described how people desperate to flee the violence found the country’s main border crossing into Syria cut by a new dawn strike, forcing them to skirt “a huge crater” and rubble on foot, to reach the other side.

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Lebanon: Medical aid arrives in Beirut amid intensifying Israeli strikes

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