"2.5 Million Lebanese Need Emergency Food Aid"

As the armed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalates into a full-fledged ground war, emergency food aid is needed for millions of Lebanese residents, CNN reported.

The U.S. Agency for International Development said in a report released on the 10th local time that up to 2.5 million people in Lebanon are facing urgent humanitarian food aid due to the escalation of the war between Israel and Hezbollah.The

report feared famine conditions, particularly in the Lebanese capital Beirut and its southern suburbs, could remain at "crisis levels" until January next year.