Lebanon war leaves a classroom of children without normalcy
War in Lebanon has wounded or killed the equivalent of one classroom of children daily and robbed the remainder of their sense of normalcy since it began two weeks ago, according to a top official of the U.N. children's agency.
According to Lebanese health ministry figures, at least 111 children have been killed and 334 wounded in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since March 2, when Lebanese armed group Hezbollah joined the regional war by firing into Israeli territory.
That equals nearly 30 children a day.
Lebanon'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.
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