The United Nations declared Thursday that the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon brought on by the Israeli-Hezbollah war has finally come to an end. The world body coupled the announcement with a planned shift in resources away from aid work to rebuilding the devastated areas of the country.
October 24 has been pencilled in for the official pull out of UN aid teams - just over two months after the UN brokered a truce between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah to bring the month-long conflict to an end.
The bulk of the UN's resources, both monetary and in kind, will now be channelled into the Lebanese government's recovery programmes, which include the vital reconstruction of water storage tanks, water lines and pumping stations, reports Reuters.
The new phase of recovery in Lebanon will be overseen by the UN Development Programme, the UN office said.
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