Members of the UN Security Council were concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Lebanon, said Ghana's UN Ambassador Nana Effah- Apenteng on Friday, the council's president for August.

During a morning session, the council members were briefed on the latest developments in Lebanon by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Margareta Wahlstrom.

The Ghanaian ambassador urged donating countries to be more generous in their response to the UN flash appeal for the country where infrastructure was being destroyed.

"With bridges and roads bombed, it is not easy to provide food and water and help to those in need," he said, adding that even UN offices would run out of stocks in three or four days.

Overnight bombing of the highway north from Beirut to the Syrian border has cut the road in three or four places and reportedly destroyed critical bridges, which could effectively sever the vital humanitarian overland link between Lebanon and the outside world, the UN said in a press statement.

A UN spokesperson said a total of 913,000 Lebanese had been displaced by the current crisis, of whom 700,000 were internally displaced within Lebanon.

Source: Xinhua