Lebanese citizens responded with fury at the news that more than 50 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in the southern town of Qana on Sunday. Across the nation, Lebanese woke up to graphic pictures of at least 37 dead children being removed from the rubble of a destroyed house. Days and weeks of frustration at the slow progress being made to resolve this conflict at the higher political level culminated in an impromptu mass convergence at the UN building in Beirut. As far as many ordinary Lebanese are concerned, Qana is the last straw. “We are used to Zionist massacres,” says Hani Mansour, a protester outside the UN building. Read more about Qana massacre provokes crowd attack on UN building 

Lebanese authorities buried 32 unclaimed bodies in a mass grave in wasteland outside Tyre on Saturday. The Lebanese soldiers retch as they unload maggot-infested body bags into coffins laid out for the mass burial. The bodies had lain unrecovered for up to ten days in the burned-out shells of cars, or scattered around the devastated villages of south Lebanon. “We just cannot hold onto them anymore,” says Salman Zaynadeen, director of a hospital in the al-Bas Palestinian camp in Tyre, where the bodies of villagers recovered this week were taken for storage. Weeping over the pieces of rubble her family collected to mark the grave of their loved one, Mihal Watfa pleads for a ceasefire. Read more about Mass burial of unclaimed bodies in Tyre 

UNHCR’s first relief convoy - carrying 140 tonnes of emergency relief items for thousands of displaced people in Lebanon - arrived safely in Beirut on Saturday after making the journey from Syria. The supplies of blankets, mattresses and kitchen sets will be distributed rapidly in the mountain areas outside Beirut where tens of thousands of people are crammed into schools. “The arrival of this first convoy is really good news. We are relieved that our emergency supplies are finally able to enter Lebanon, and this is just the start,” said UNHCR’s representative in Lebanon, Stephane Jaquemet, as the convoy pulled into the Lebanese capital. Read more about First UNHCR relief convoy arrives safely in Beirut from Syria 

For the past two weeks, Lebanese TV stations have been working flat out to provide their viewers with reports of the Israeli offensive in the country. Exhausted anchors have given the crisis 24-hour rolling coverage and correspondents have taken great risks to cover the heavy fighting. In addition to covering the news however, Lebanon’s many TV channels are also playing a role in the massive relief effort for the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who have been displaced. Phone numbers for volunteers and donations are continually flashed up on screens and information from people in the areas that have seen the heaviest fighting has been included in the news. Read more about Despite direct hits, TV stations play vital role in relief efforts 

Some 925 Lebanese families have sought refuge in the impoverished al-Bas Palestinian camp in central Tyre since Israel’s air attacks against Lebanon began on 12 July, according to Ali Naji, head of the Committee for the Aid of Refugees (CAR). Naji said the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) was collecting the camp’s rubbish, assisted by teams organised by members of the Palestine’s Fatah party - the resistance movement founded by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. “Our town was destroyed,” said Waziriya Abboud, one of the displaced Lebanese at the camp, standing outside a classroom in al-Bas. Read more about Fleeing Lebanese seek shelter with Palestinian refugees 

Heavy exchanges of fire continued with increased intensity along the length of the Blue Line in the past 24 hours. The IDF has maintained their presence inside Lebanese territory in the area of Marun Al Ras, Bint Jubayl, and Yarun in the central sector. There were two direct impacts on UNIFIL positions from the Israeli side in the past 24 hours. Eight artillery and mortar rounds impacted inside an Indian battalion position in the area of Hula, causing extensive material damage, but no casualties. One artillery round impacted the parameter wall of the UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura. There were five other incidents of firing close to UN positions from the Israeli side. Read more about Israeli artillery continues to hit UNIFIL positions in south Lebanon 

The top United Nations aid official today made an urgent appeal for a “humanitarian truce” lasting at least three days between Israel and Hezbollah to allow children, the wounded and the elderly to escape the fighting and food, medicine and other emergency supplies to get through to the conflict zones. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland, who has returned to UN Headquarters in New York from a six-day visit to Lebanon, northern Israel and the Gaza Strip, made his appeal while briefing the Security Council on the deadly and horrific destruction in the region. Read more about UN aid chief calls for ‘humanitarian truce’ to help Middle East’s children and wounded