Nearly 14,000 pregnant women in Lebanon have been affected by the war between Israel and the Hezbollah militia, according to a report published Wednesday by the UN human rights office.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said that according to recent data, around 1,500 of them will give birth in the coming weeks.
Overall, the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse of women is high in Lebanon’s overcrowded shelters, the report said.
The fighting in Lebanon has displaced around 880,000 people in the country, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM). Another 470,000 have fled across the border to neighboring Syria, where a civil war broke out in 2011.
OCHA has appealed to international donors for $426 million to provide essential support to those affected in Lebanon. To date, only about a quarter of this target has been raised.
