TEHRAN –The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has sent a consignment of relief items to people affected by recent Israeli attacks in Lebanon.

The humanitarian aid, including essential items and basic goods, was dispatched this morning (on October 4), IRNA quoted Pirhossein Kolivand, head of the IRCS, as saying.

Since September 23, the Israeli army has been launching an unprecedented, intensive air attack on Lebanon.

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on different areas in Lebanon over the past 24 hours reached 37 while injuries stood at 151, the Lebanese health Ministry reported on Friday.

The ministry said that nine people were killed and 24 others injured in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, Xinhua news agency reported.

Kolivand along with Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi conducted a visit to Lebanon on Friday to observe the ongoing relief services there.

Since the beginning of Israeli attacks on September 23, over 2,000 people have been killed and thousands more wounded.

On September 29, two strikes near the southern city of Sidon, about 45 kilometers south of Beirut, killed at least 32 people, the ministry said. Separately, Israeli strikes in the northern province of Baalbek Hermel killed 21 people and wounded at least 47.

Following the tragic events, the head of the IRCS,  Kolivand,  announced the IRCS’ readiness to dispatch humanitarian aid and relief teams to Lebanon to assist the people affected by the recent Israeli attacks in the Dahiya district in Beirut.

He also conveyed a message to the Regional Director at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies –IFRC, Middle East & North Africa (MENA),  Hossam Elsharkawi, President of the Lebanese Red Cross, Antoine Zoghbi, and Lebanese Health Minister Firas al-Abid expressed the IRCS's readiness to provide humanitarian assistance to Dahiya, IRCS website reported.

On September 25, Kolivand along with a team that encompassed 12 specialists and general practitioners, as well as 12 relief workers headed Lebanon, IRNA reported.

“The rescue team including optometrists are dispatched with the coordination of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the health ministry of Lebanon to provide humanitarian aid to those injured,” the IRCS website quoted Kolivand as saying.

The official also announced readiness to transfer injured people to Iran to receive further services if needed.

The former spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has vehemently denounced the pager explosions, describing the tragedy as an act of mass murder perpetrated by the occupying Israeli regime.

“Today’s terrorist attack in Lebanon is a continuation of hybrid operations being conducted by the Zionist regime and their mercenaries, runs counter to all moral and humanitarian principles as well as international laws, particularly the international humanitarian law, and deserves international criminal prosecution, trial, and punishment,” Nasser Kan’ani said in a statement on September 24, Press TV reported.

Kan’ani then called upon the international community to take immediate action against the impunity of criminal Israeli authorities.

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