The chief of the UN Refugee Agency confirmed, Tuesday, that two staffers were among the hundreds who have been killed in the latest Israeli air strikes in Lebanon, Anadolu Agency reports.

“Israeli air strikes in Lebanon are now relentlessly claiming hundreds of civilian lives. And I am very saddened to confirm that two UNHCR colleagues were also killed yesterday,” Filippo Grandi wrote on X.

The Israeli army has launched waves of deadly air strikes against Lebanon since early Monday, killing at least 558 people, including 95 women and 50 children, and injuring 1,835.