Lebanon will seek hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency relief and early reconstruction assistance from a conference of international donors in Stockholm on Thursday, as the country starts to rebuild after 34 days of war.

Jihad Azour, the finance minister, said Lebanon needed between $400m (€314m, £212m) and $500m in short-term assistance for the quick rehabilitation of infrastructure and schools, social projects for vulnerable groups, and assistance in de-mining border areas where Israeli-fired cluster bombs are preventing farmers from returning to their land.