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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 4 (Xinhua) -- Members of the UN
Security Council were concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation
in Lebanon, said Ghana's UN Ambassador Nana Effah-Apenteng on Friday, the
council's president for August.
During a morning session, the council members were briefed on the latest developments in Lebanon by
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno and
Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Margareta Wahlstrom.
The Ghanaian ambassador urged donating countries to
be more generous in their response to the UN flash appeal for the country where
infrastructure was being destroyed.
"With bridges and roads bombed, it is not easy to
provide food and water and help to those in need," he said, adding that even UN
offices would run out of stocks in three or four days.
Overnight bombing of the highway north from Beirut to
the Syrian border has cut the road in three or four places and reportedly
destroyed critical bridges, which could effectively sever the vital humanitarian
overland link between Lebanon and the outside world, the UN said in a press
statement.
A UN spokesperson said a total of 913,000 Lebanese
had been displaced by the current crisis, of whom 700,000 were internally
displaced within Lebanon. Enditem
