GENEVA LEBANON UNICEF INTERVIEW

As 107 children have reportedly been killed and 331 children have been wounded, UNICEF’s Chief of Advocacy and Communication in Lebanon, Christophe Boulierac, said, “children in Lebanon are once again paying the highest price of escalating violence.” UNTV CH

• Video Length: 00:03:16
• Production Date: 16 March 2026
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: WAR; WAR VICTIMS; CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICTS; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; CIVILIAN PROTECTION
• Geographic Subject: LEBANON; ISRAEL
• MAMS Id: 3545104
• Parent Id: 3545104
• Alternate Title: unifeed260316h

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STORY: LEBANON / UNICEF INTERVIEW
TRT: 03:16
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 16 MARCH 2026, BEIRUT, LEBANON / FILE

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16 MARCH 2026, BEIRUT, LEBANON

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Chief, Advocacy and Communication, Lebanon (UNICEF):
“Children in Lebanon are once again paying the highest price of escalating violence. Since we now have, 107 children killed and 331 children wounded, something very seriously. Only during the first week from March 2 to March 9 there was, on average, ten children killed every day in Lebanon due to the strikes and 36 wounded.”

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3. Close up, United Nations flag

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Chief, Advocacy and Communication, Lebanon (UNICEF):
“We have now 290,000 children who are displaced. What does it mean? It means that once again, because this happened 18 months ago, once again, children who were in their room, who were playing with their family had to leave their rooms, their home, in total fear, in total panic. They didn't have, once again, they didn't have time to take their clothes, or their toys, or their schoolbooks, and they had to jump in a car and to flee.”

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5. Close up, United Nations flag

16 MARCH 2026, BEIRUT, LEBANON

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Chief, Advocacy and Communication, Lebanon (UNICEF):
“We responded from day one. We had prepositioned stock. So, it started on March 2, on March 3 we were already distributing this kind of first emergency items. and this was, as I said, to provide dignity. Now we are in week three and we are really scaling up our answer. We are supporting the national authorities. We have partners. We are not alone here. but it's really to provide, to help the national institutions, to provide basic services to displaced families and particularly to children who are the most vulnerable.”

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7. Close up, United Nations flag

16 MARCH 2026, BEIRUT, LEBANON

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Chief, Advocacy and Communication, Lebanon (UNICEF):
“Now, unfortunately, there is an aggravating factor. The last weekend was very cold and very rainy. So, we have children who arrived with chronic disease, but now we see some children who are coughing and who might have a respiratory infection. We are also working on water and sanitation. It's very important that there is no waterborne disease. In order to avoid that, children families need to have access to safe water not only in host communities, in shelters, but also in villages.”

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9. Close up, United Nations flag

16 MARCH 2026, BEIRUT, LEBANON

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Chief, Advocacy and Communication, Lebanon (UNICEF):
“What children need when they hear explosions, where there they feel the anxiety and the stress of their parents when they had to leave their normalcy because they just left their home. It's extremely destabilizing for children. They need to play and they need to express their emotions. So, this is also a priority for us. We are organizing recreative activities. We distribute recreational kits, and we allow children with our partners to play.”

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11. Close up, United Nations flag

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As 107 children have reportedly been killed and 331 children have been wounded, UNICEF’s Chief of Advocacy and Communication in Lebanon, Christophe Boulierac, today (16 Mar) said, “children in Lebanon are once again paying the highest price of escalating violence.”

Talking to UNTV Geneva, Boulierac said, “only during the first week from March 2 to March 9 there was, on average, ten children killed every day in Lebanon due to the strikes and 36 wounded.”

With 290,000 children having been displaced, he said, “once again, children who were in their room, who were playing with their family had to leave their rooms, their home, in total fear, in total panic.”

Boulierac said, “they didn't have, once again, they didn't have time to take their clothes, or their toys, or their schoolbooks, and they had to jump in a car and to flee.”

As the conflict enters its third week, he said, “we are really scaling up our answer. We are supporting the national authorities. We have partners. We are not alone here. but it's really to provide, to help the national institutions, to provide basic services to displaced families and particularly to children who are the most vulnerable.”

The UNICEF official said, “unfortunately, there is an aggravating factor. The last weekend was very cold and very rainy. So, we have children who arrived with chronic disease, but now we see some children who are coughing and who might have a respiratory infection. We are also working on water and sanitation. It's very important that there is no waterborne disease.”

In order to avoid that, he said, “children families need to have access to safe water not only in host communities, in shelters, but also in villages.”

On the importance of education, Boulierac said, “what children need when they hear explosions, where there they feel the anxiety and the stress of their parents when they had to leave their normalcy because they just left their home. It's extremely destabilizing for children. They need to play and they need to express their emotions. So, this is also a priority for us. We are organizing recreative activities. We distribute recreational kits, and we allow children with our partners to play.”

To date, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, and other humanitarian partners have distributed more than 800,000 hot meals, as well as mattresses, sleeping mats, blankets, and other shelter items. Hygiene kits have also been provided across hundreds of collective shelters. They are also delivering clean water, which is benefiting some 700,000 people.

Since the start of the response, UNHCR has delivered over 182,000 essential items, such as blankets, mattresses, solar lamps, sleeping mats, and jerry cans, across more than 375 sites nationwide, reaching more than two thirds of those displaced in collective shelters.

In just two weeks, 28 attacks against healthcare centres have been reported by the World Health Organization, resulting in 30 deaths and some 35 injuries.