European Union crisis management chief Hadja Lahbib has called for increased humanitarian access in southern Lebanon, where Israel has continued strikes and Hezbollah has launched retaliatory attacks despite a “ceasefire” currently in effect, Al Jazeera reports.

“Humanitarian aid is ready, but too often it cannot reach those who need it most,” Lahbib tells a news conference on the second day of her visit to Lebanon, in advance of an expected EU aid delivery. “We need humanitarian access in full respect of international humanitarian law. Aid cannot save lives if it cannot reach people.

“Hospitals and ambulances targeted and journalists attacked [by Israel] for simply doing their job. There is no justification for this. International humanitarian law must be respected,” she adds.