| The ICRC is the lead agency in the region and is working with both the Lebanese Red Cross and Israel’s Magen David Adom to help those most in need.
Further plans include distributing blankets, tents and hygiene kits among other relief items for up to 50,000 displaced or homeless people in the region.
Due to our neutral and impartial status, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is one of the only aid organisations that has been able to reach people in the conflict zone.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is supporting national societies in neighbouring countries such as Syria, which expects to receive thousands more refugees.
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society has been organising the use of schools and disability centres as shelter for families fleeing across the Lebanese-Syria border. It has also been supplying shelters with mattresses, blankets, medicine and water.
The British Red Cross’ emergency appeal will support the work of our sister organisations on the ground, where despite the obvious dangers volunteers are helping people caught up in the crisis.
Matthias Schmale, British Red Cross international director, summed up: “Civilians are bearing the brunt of the armed conflict and are in desperate need of humanitarian support.”
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