Devastation at every turn greets UN aid mission to south Lebanon

“I came here two weeks ago and we’ve come back today again with a convoy… but what is different today is the whole street in front of the hospital is completely destroyed ,” said UN Children’s Fund spokesperson, Christophe Boulierac.

In an exclusive video interview with UN News while on mission, Mr. Boulierac showed that although the hospital was still standing, much of what had been around it was not.

Beside heaps of rubble, collapsed houses lay in ruins, amid burnt-out cars at every turn.

‘Completely destroyed’

The hospital is “kind of functional, but they were running out of water, out of medicine, out of energy.…