Lebanon war leaves a classroom of children hurt or dead every day: UN 

BEIRUT, Mar 18: War in Lebanon has wounded or killed the equivalent of one classroom of children daily and robbed the remainder of their sense of normalcy since it began two weeks ago, a top official of the U.N. children's agency said.

According to Lebanese health ministry figures, at least 111 children have been killed and 334 wounded in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since March 2, when Lebanese armed group Hezbollah joined the regional war by firing into Israeli territory. That equals nearly 30 children a day.

"That's a classroom of children every day since the beginning of the war that's either killed or injured in Lebanon," UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban said in an interview on Tuesday.

Lebanon's child deaths are among 1,200 children killed across the region in recent weeks - nearly 200 in Iran, four in Israel and one in Kuwait.    �"REUTERS