USAID: 2.5 Million People In Lebanon Need Urgent Food Assistance

JAKARTA - Up to 2.5 million people need urgent humanitarian food assistance in Lebanon when Israel's war with Hezbollah rages in the country, according to the United States International Development Agency (USAID).

Reported by CNN, Friday, October 11, in a report published, USAID quoted the Early Warning System Network saying the number of people requiring assistance had increased by 40 percent of the population.

Some areas are expected to remain at the crisis' level until January, including the capital Beirut and its southern suburbs.

According to the report, the current disruption of the food supply chain and what will happen is encouraging households to hoard food and basic necessities amid rising prices for bread and other staple commodities.

Israel hit Lebanon with an unprecedented airstrike military operation, killing more than 1,500 people, injuring more than 8,000 people and displaced more than 1 million people, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

A quarter of Lebanon's territory is under orders of Israeli military evacuation, according to the United Nations. This is a sign of an increasing scale of the humanitarian crisis and the expansion of Israel's war against Hezbollah.