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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 537

displaced people

Evacuees from Kibbutz Be'eri at a hotel in the Dead Sea, October 20, 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
February 25, 2025, 10:53 pm
One-fifth of Israelis displaced by war have lost their jobs, survey shows
44% of evacuees from the north and south say their incomes are lower than pre-war levels, compared to national average of 35%, Israel Democracy Institute survey shows
By Reuters and Sharon Wrobel
Security forces speak to residents inside a cordoned-off area near a house hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ein Hamifratz near Acre in northern Israel on October 19, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 5, 2025, 9:43 pm
Israel lays out NIS 3.4 billion plan to get northerners back home in March
Internally displaced for more than a year, returning residents will be eligible for assistance grants of up to NIS 25,360 per adult and NIS 12,680 per child
By Sharon Wrobel
Alaa Hamami prepares a meal while her 10-year-old daughter, Basant, sits inside their tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
December 30, 2024, 11:23 am
Packed into squalid tent camps, Gazan women struggle to live without privacy
With limited access to menstrual products, the proximity of men, and constant fear of needing to flee, displaced women feel they ‘have become exposed to the public’
By WAFAA SHURAFA and Julia Frankel
Sharona Dahan cooks at Asif in Tel Aviv, in a rare respite from takeout nearly a year after being evacuated from her home in Sderot, October 2024. (Deborah Danan)
December 8, 2024, 9:46 am
For displaced Israelis, the kitchen becomes a symbol of hope, home, remembrance
At the Asif Culinary Institute through April, ‘The Open Kitchen: Memories From a Home Left Behind’ tells the stories of evacuees and the significance of the foods they hold dear
By Deborah Danan
Mariam Kourani, 56, left, and her husband Ali Haidous stand on the rubble of their home after returning to the village of Hanouiyeh southern Lebanon, November 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
November 30, 2024, 2:13 pm
As truce takes effect, displaced Lebanese come home to find piles of rubble
World Bank estimates $3.2b in damages as some 100,000 housing units damaged in Israel’s offensive, launched in response to relentless Hezbollah attacks; ‘all the memories are gone’
By AP and ToI Staff
A woman and her two children walk along a street heavily damaged by Israeli airstrikes in Baalbek, Lebanon, October 9, 2024. (Fabio Bucciarelli / AFP)
October 10, 2024, 11:45 am
600,000 Lebanese internally displaced by Israel’s offensive, UN says
Figure includes 350,000 children; ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis compounded by strikes on roads where IDF says Hezbollah is smuggling in Iranian arms
By AFP and ToI Staff
Lebanese men walk with a dog past tents where displaced people have been sleeping on Beirut's seaside promenade of Ain al-Mreisseh, on October 7, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
October 8, 2024, 2:09 pm
As Lebanese flee combat zones, many regard refugees with suspicion
As war drives people away from conflict areas, residents in other regions fear those arriving could include Hezbollah members who may attract Israeli strikes
By AFP
Illustrative: European diplomats visit the largely-empty city of Kiryat Shmona, July 11, 2024. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
October 3, 2024, 4:04 pm
Israel’s 68,000 evacuees mark the Jewish new year wondering when they will return home
In the year since the Oct. 7 massacre, near-daily attacks by Hezbollah have left the lives of displaced northern residents in limbo. And now the conflict is intensifying
By Deborah Danan
'The Open Kitchen: Memories From a Home Left Behind,' a new exhibit at Asif Culinary Institute from September 2024 to mark one year since October 7. (Courtesy Asif)
September 30, 2024, 6:19 pm
Evacuees miss their kitchens, even dishwashing, in new exhibit
Tel Aviv food institute Asif helped people who lost their homes find comfort after the Hamas attacks, and now marks one year with new projects
By Jessica Steinberg
Opening the new school year at the Horesh school in Zichron Yaakov, on September 1, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
September 1, 2024, 5:33 pm
As northern evacuees begin school in Zichron Yaakov, some find a silver lining
At the Horesh combined primary and middle school in the northern town, displaced kids absorbed into the general student body are starting their second school year away from home
By Gavriel Fiske
Lior Golan and Oriana ben Aba Golan, evacuees from Kibbutz Nir Am near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, return to their home 10 months after the October 7 Hamas massacre. August 15, 2024. (Dor Pazuelo-FLASH90)
August 15, 2024, 8:31 pm
Thousands of residents return to homes near Gaza as state ends hotel funding for some
Around 3,700 Israelis go back to towns they left on October 7; residents of 10 communities badly damaged in Hamas attack have housing for at least another year
By Canaan Lidor
The Zomi camp for displaced people in southwestern Gaza. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 9, 2024, 1:26 am
Palestinians, Israelis partner to bring off-grid solutions to Gaza camps
Damour for Community Development and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies want to show international donors value of wastewater treatment, desalination, solar energy solutions
By Sue Surkes
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 8, 2024, 7:07 pm
Fiscal deficit widens to 8.1% as state continues to shell out billions on war effort
Deficit climbs for fourth month above 2024 government budget ceiling of 6.6%, as spending on the war with Hamas reaches almost NIS 90 billion
By Sharon Wrobel
A community space and kitchen in the Zomi displaced people's camp in the Gaza Strip has been named for the Canadian-born Israeli peace campaigner Vivian Silver, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in her home in Kibbutz Be'eri, close to the Gaza border, on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 8, 2024, 2:10 pm
Israeli peace activist murdered by Hamas is memorialized in Gaza evacuee camp
Sign with Vivian Silver’s name and photo graces community facility in humanitarian zone in south Gaza
By Sue Surkes
Protesters rally in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, marking 300 days in captivity for the hostages in Gaza and demanding an immediate deal for their return, on August 1, 2024. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
August 6, 2024, 4:47 pm
Some evacuated families of hostages said told to vacate government-subsidized homes
Tourism Ministry, which pays the rent to the landlords, says government has not extended funding past August; PM’s office: Funding to continue, issue only a ‘technical matter’
By ToI Staff
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