Israeli attacks displace over 1M in Lebanon, 1 in 5 affected: UN refugee agency

More than 1 million people have been displaced in Lebanon over the past month following Israeli attacks, with one in every five people in the country currently displaced, according to the UNHCR, Anadolu reports.

UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch told Anadolu that the humanitarian situation in Lebanon is “deepening day by day.”

“We have seen it during the last one month that the Israeli evacuation orders, then the strikes and people have been on the move. Right now inside Lebanon we have more than a million people that have been displaced because of the escalating conflict inside the region and in Lebanon itself as well,” Baloch said.

He stressed that one in five people inside Lebanon “currently is displaced and many of them are desperate, they’re traumatized,” adding that displacement is occurring across the country, with more than 130,000 people sheltering in over 600 collective centers.

“The conflict intensifies and escalates and it does not stop, it keeps going on with the Lebanese people and Syrian refugees who live in Lebanon, affecting them but it also forces people to leave Lebanon and seek safety somewhere else,” he added.

Families are sleeping in overcrowded shelters, often without adequate indoor conditions, he said.