Lebanon receives first UN aid plane
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A delivery of medical supplies from the United Nations reached Lebanon on Friday, a first since last week’s escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, said a UN agency and a Lebanese minister.
“An airlift... landed in Beirut earlier this morning with 30 metric tonnes of trauma and surgical supplies, enough to treat tens of thousands people,” the World Health Organization’s regional director Hanan Balkhy said on social media platform X.
“More flights are arriving later today and tomorrow, carrying trauma supplies, cholera supplies and mental health supplies,” she added.
Health Minister Firass Abiad was at the Beirut airport on Friday to receive the aid organised by the World Health Organization and UN refugee agency UNHCR and funded by the United Arab Emirates.
“We are receiving the first shipment out of many,” he said. The shipment included “many trauma kits that will be crucial to support the hospitals as they receive the casualties from the Israeli attacks on Lebanon,” he added.
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