Many children remain “missing under rubble” and caught “on dangerous roads” after Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, the UN children’s agency warned.

More children were killed in Lebanon in one day on Monday than in the entire past year, Ettie Higgins, UNICEF Deputy Representative for Lebanon Ettie Higgins told a UN briefing Tuesday.  

UNICEF has received reports that many Lebanese children “slept in cars and on the sides of roads” on Monday night after thousands of families were displaced from their homes in southern Lebanon, Higgins said.