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UN: Children Account for One-Third of Casualties

HeadlineJul 20, 2006

Over the past nine days, 10 times as many Lebanese have died as Israelis. The United Nations’ emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, said that neither Israeli nor Hezbollah seemed to care about civilian suffering. He estimated that nearly a third of the dead or wounded were children. He warned that many of the wounded could not be helped because roads and bridges had been cut by Israeli air strikes. The International Committee of the Red Cross also criticized Israel for killing so many civilians and for destroying much of Lebanon’s public infrastructure.

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