"That's a classroom of children every day since the beginning of the war that's either killed or injured in Lebanon," UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban said in an interview on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENTLebanon's child deaths are among 1,200 children killed across the region in recent weeks - nearly 200 in Iran, four in Israel and one in Kuwait. Fatima Mohammad Basharush, a 41-year-old woman displaced from southern Lebanon to a school in Beirut, said her three children loved school but were now getting only a partial education. At least 38 health workers have been killed in Israeli strikes since March 2, according to Lebanon's health ministry. "There is no place for attacking health infrastructure, water infrastructure, schools.

Source: The Telegraph March 18, 2026 10:40 UTC