The ICRC together with the VII Photo agency has launched a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of today’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. As part of the campaign, which marks the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross, the ICRC sent five photographers from VII to eight conflict-affected countries to examine up-close the suffering caused by war and violence.

An exhibition of the work is being shown in 40 countries. .

 

Lebanon faces the threat of conflict and violence on all fronts. In August 2006, Israel launched a 34-day military campaign against the Lebanon-based armed group Hezbollah. Thousands of people were displaced and damage to infrastructure was widespread. The presence of thousands of unexploded cluster sub-munitions means that many people still face the threat of injury, death and loss of livelihood three years after the end of the war. Violence has also beset some Palestinian camps in the country, killing and injuring hundreds.