US Edition‘Sleeping in Our Car Is the only Option’: Displaced Lebanese Face Skyrocketing Rents
More than 800,000 Lebanese displaced by the conflict shelter outdoors amid heavy rain as official shelters reach full capacity, Lebanese authorities reported.
- On Sunday, displaced families in Lebanon, including Mohammad Marie and Hussain Murtada, sought makeshift shelter in trucks and under trees as heavy rain fell, unable to find space in overcrowded public facilities.
- More than 800,000 people, around 15% of Lebanon's population, have fled their homes since Israel began an offensive against the Lebanese Hezbollah group on March 2, dragging the country into broader Middle East tensions.
- Israeli attacks have killed 850 people and wounded more than 2,100 others since March 2, according to the Lebanese health ministry, including 107 children and 66 women.
- The United Nations launched a $308 million flash appeal on Friday to assist Lebanon, as only 132,000 displaced people occupy collective shelters while the majority remain scattered in streets and host communities.
- Murtada, who fled the town of Hanawiya, said, "I just want a shelter for me and the children," as families endure persistent rain in unsafe, makeshift conditions with no relief in sight.
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'Nowhere feels safe': Beirut hit by new Israeli airstrikes
Over 800,000 people have reportedly been displaced in Lebanon as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies. Some fear this is only the start. DW met families living on the streets and in makeshift shelters.
‘Sleeping in our car is the only option’: Displaced Lebanese face skyrocketing rents
Hezbollah’s entry into the war against Israel on March 2, in retaliation for the US-Israeli strikes on its Iranian ally, has triggered a massive displacement of civilians across Lebanon. With many shelters at capacity and rental prices skyrocketing, many now find themselves sleeping in the streets or in their cars.
Baptist seminary providing shelter to displaced amid Israel’s fighting with Hezbollah
The Arab Baptist Theological Seminary near Beirut is sheltering displaced people who fled their homes as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah forces hundreds of thousands of civilians across Lebanon to seek refuge. #ArabBaptistTheologicalSeminary #Beirut #DisplacedPeople #Israel #Hezbollah #Lebanon
Hits on hotels, bombarded neighbourhoods, massive displacements... the war in Lebanon is causing psychosis. In the streets of Beirut, displaced people from the south sometimes find themselves treated as suspects pro-Hezbollah. Lebanese society finds itself torn between solidarity and the temptation to be wary of itself.
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