A delivery of medical supplies from the United Nations reached Lebanon, the first since the escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, AFP reports according to a UN agency and a Lebanese minister.

“An airlift … landed in Beirut earlier this morning with 30 metric tonnes of trauma and surgical supplies, enough to treat tens of thousands [of] people,” the World Health Organisation’s regional director Hanan Balkhy said on social media platform X.

“More flights are arriving later today and tomorrow, carrying trauma supplies, cholera supplies and mental health supplies,” she added.

Health Minister Firass Abiad was at Beirut airport on Friday to receive the aid organised by the WHO and UNHCR and funded by the United Arab Emirates.

“We are receiving the first shipment out of many,” he said. The shipment included “many trauma kits that will be crucial to support the hospitals as they receive the casualties from the Israeli attacks on Lebanon,” he added.