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Sunday, March 8, 2026
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Sunday, March 8, 2026
Lebanon registers over 500,000 displaced by IDF strikes amid fight with Hezbollah
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Displaced people fleeing Israeli airstrikes sleep at a school turned into a shelter in Beirut, Lebanon, March 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Lebanon’s social affairs minister says more than half a million people have been registered as displaced since the outbreak of the new conflict between Israel and Hezbollah on Monday.
In a press briefing, Haneen Sayed says that the total number of people who have registered their names on a website affiliated with the ministry reached 517,000, including 117,228 people in government shelters.
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