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Lebanese children face grave danger amid Israel's ceasefire breaches: UNICEF

Wednesday, 26 November 2025 7:18 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 7:18 PM ]

Lebanese children walk past a damaged car at the site of an Israeli strike that hit an apartment building in Dahiyeh in the southern suburb of Beirut, November 23, 2025. (Photo by AP)

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has warned that children in Lebanon continue to face grave danger from daily Israeli attacks, despite a ceasefire agreement with the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.

“Deadly attacks continue to threaten children in Lebanon. These tragedies add to a devastating toll: More than 13 children have been killed and 146 others injured since the ceasefire was announced one year ago,” UNICEF's Lebanon representative Marcoluigi Corsi said in a message on Wednesday, citing figures from Lebanon’s Ministry of Health.

"Across Lebanon, children remain exposed to danger and fear, even under what should be a truce. This reality is intolerable. Every child deserves the chance to grow up in safety, with protection, and free from harm," Corsi added.

The warning comes on the eve of the first anniversary of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, which took effect on November 27, 2024.

The agreement was intended to end more than a year of Israeli aggression that began in October 2023. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reported that at least 3,823 people were killed by Israel during that period.

Despite the ceasefire, Israel has continued daily strikes across Lebanon, targeting civilians and infrastructure while falsely claiming to target Hezbollah positions.

According to the Lebanese health ministry, more than 330 people have been killed and 945 injured since the ceasefire took effect last year.

In another breach, Israel has refused to fully withdraw from Lebanon, maintaining five strategic positions along the border that enable its forces to strike with impunity.

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Meanwhile, Israel's minister of military affairs, Israel Katz, said on Wednesday that the regime may completely dismiss the ceasefire agreement and attack Lebanon again if Hezbollah refuses to disarm.

“As we proved a few days ago with the [attack], there will be no calm in Beirut, nor order and stability in Lebanon, until the security of Israel is guaranteed,” he said, referring to Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah commander Haitham Ali al-Tabtabai in Beirut’s southern suburb on Sunday.

Hezbollah has rejected a Lebanese cabinet decision that called for the group’s full disarmament by the end of this year.

The resistance movement has repeatedly said that it is willing to discuss a national defensive strategy that would incorporate its weapons into the Lebanese army, but refuses to negotiate while the regime continues its attacks and maintains occupation of several areas in southern Lebanon.

US officials have publicly supported Israeli threats and have warned that Lebanon faces a major assault if it does not compel the resistance to surrender its weapons.

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