Those Suffering Innocently Always Deserve Help

Hungary consistently takes the view that the further escalation of the Middle East conflict must be avoided and the innocent victims must be helped in everything.

As donations from the government, we gave medicine and medical devices, as well as durable food donations from the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta to the Lebanese organization, which is taking care of one million inner refugees. They gave thanks to Hungary.

Brigadier General Balázs Szloszjár, leader of the Hungarian military delegation, Acting Commander of the HDF Land Component Command and Commander of the HDF General Staff Joint Operations Command and Control Centre (GS JOCCC) told the defence.hu that the complex relief supply was accompanied by the highly qualified soldiers of the Hungarian Defence Forces.

“The team arriving by the aircraft of the HDF included special operations soldiers, who carried out securing tasks at the Beirut Air Base. A medical team also came with us, as well as the pilots and land servicing crew belonging to the servicing”, he said.

He claimed that the HDF has such complex capabilities by the help of which they can deliver relief supplies and soldiers to any place in the world and bring people back home, as an expedition. “The Lebanese are very grateful for our help. Currently, 16 Hungarian soldiers are serving in South Lebanon, who work together with local soldiers”, he said.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary and the Hungarian Defence Forces have evacuated eight Hungarian citizens and their two family members of foreign nationality, as well as one Irish and one Spanish person from the economic and internal policy crisis-stricken state, where a hundred Hungarian citizens are registered for consular protection. Based on the information from the Embassy of Hungary in Beirut, 220 Hungarian citizens are living in Lebanon.