The UN estimates that more than 200,000 people have crossed into Syria since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon

MADRID 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that more than 200,000 people have left Lebanon for Syria since the beginning of the Israeli invasion of the south of the country.

The head of the agency, Filippo Grandi, has provided this new estimate in a message published this Saturday on his social network X, where he identifies the displaced as “Lebanese and Syrian citizens residing until now in Lebanon.”

Grandi has indicated that both his agency and the Lebanese authorities and NGOs continue their humanitarian efforts to try to provide all possible assistance to people who are crossing the border in an extremely violent environment.

Without going any further, Israel carried out several bombings this past Friday on the main route used by civilians to cross from Lebanon to Syria and thus escape the current wave of attacks, in the surroundings of Masnaa, less than 24 hours after denouncing that the Shiite militia party Hezbollah was allegedly using it to transfer weapons from Syrian territory.