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A step toward a brighter future for children in Lebanon! 🇱🇧 Save the Children Lebanon signed an MoU with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education to strengthen learning recovery, support teachers, and promote safe, inclusive, quality education for every child.

⚠️Three #children were among seven people killed in an Israeli forces airstrike this morning on a house in Southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. #StoptheWaronChildren – at Lebanon

⚠️The UN's latest Children and Armed Conflict report has found Israeli forces were the biggest perpetrators of verified grave violations against children globally. 👇Read the full CAAC report: docs.un.org/A/51/306 #StopTheWarOnChildren

A record 24,174 grave violations against #children were recorded globally, and #Lebanon is no exception with least 251 children have been killed and over 990 children have been injured by Israeli forces bombings. 👇Read the full CAAC report: docs.un.org/A/51/306

Mazen, a dedicated Save the Children manager in #Lebanon, is marking #FathersDay this year while displaced from his home in Beqaa. 👇Read Mazen’s full blog. savethechildren.net/stories/…

🚸#InternationalDayofPlay: Safe play areas a ‘lifeline’ for children as conflict displaces a record number of #children. 👇Read our press release. savethechildren.net/news/int…

🚸13 #children killed & injured in Israeli forces airstrikes a day since March 2nd. 📢Save the Children is calling for a definitive and lasting #ceasefire to protect children & families from further harm and allow them to return safely to their homes & resume their lives.

👇Photo essay: We asked eight #children displaced from southern Lebanon to share one item that has brought them comfort since they were forced to flee their home as the heavy Israeli bombing intensified on March 2nd. shorturl.at/NSjmw

Honored to welcome H.E. @SafirAustralia to a collective shelter in Beirut. 🇱🇧🇦🇺 He met with displaced families to hear their stories and reaffirmed the vital need for international solidarity to ensure every child and family receives the protection they deserve.

PRESS RELEASE: Over four #children killed or injured on average a day during the ‘so- called’ ceasefire in #Lebanon. “Attacks on civilians have not stopped... the airstrikes feel more intense in some areas than ever." @noraingdal savethechildren.net/news/ove…

⚠️Attacks on #schools are grave violations against #children. 📢We call on the international community to ensure accountability for these violations, and request all parties to the conflict to uphold international law to protect all children and civilian spaces at all times.

📍#Lebanon: Over 380,000 #children predicted to face crisis‑levels of hunger | Save the Children International share.google/X2z121WFYdevPQZ… – at Lebanon

📍#Lebanon: “If children are being killed this is far from a ceasefire.” - @noraingdal, Country Director, @SaveChildrenLEB. #StoptheWaronChildren – at Lebanon

“I have met with many children and families across the country, they all tell me the same thing, they want to go back home, children want to go back to school, adults back to work," says Nora Ingdal, Country Director, @SaveChildrenLEB

⚠️A week into the newly extended conditional ceasefire in Lebanon, thousands of people have nowhere to return to as the Israeli military demolished entire villages during its ground invasion of southern Lebanon, with over 62,000 housing units damaged or destroyed during the war.

📍Lebanon: A week since temporary ceasefire, more than one million people still displaced as drones continue to hover | Save the Children International share.google/ghuvJ9pe8myhk7P… – at Lebanon

📍#Lebanon: " it is the first day after the so-called ceasefire, and people still not sure if they can trust that this is a lasting and permament ceasefire," says Nora Ingdal, Save the Children Lebanon Country Director to Al Qahera News. 👇Watch the full interview. #Ceasefire – at Lebanon

💔 45 days of fear. 45 days of stolen childhood. ⚠️ This moment must mark the beginning of lasting stability and relief, not merely a pause before further suffering. – at Lebanon

📍For more than 1 million people displaced by the Israeli war, "home" has become a painful uncertainty, with no way to know if their houses are still standing or have been reduced to rubble. ⚠️ Save the Children is urgently calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities.