Around 1 million people were forced to flee their homes in Lebanon due to heavy Israeli bombing across the country.
Many of them have nowhere to go. They live and sleep on the street, in squares or on beaches. The luckiest have found a place in makeshift camps set up in Beirut, which are by no means sufficient for the displaced.
“We were forced to leave our villages and homes and come to Beirut, where there are no available houses or schools. There is overcrowding everywhere,” one of the displaced people told BBC Arabic.
“The situation is tragic”
“If we survive the bombings, we run the risk of dying from the cold and disease. We have no money or access to medicine if we get sick. Many suffer alone on the streets,” he explained.
Another man said that he now lives on the street and doesn’t know what to do: “We left everything behind and arrived here without clothes and without resources. Rents have skyrocketed, they are unaffordable and that’s why we live on the street with our children, in the middle of winter. The situation is tragic.”
All minute-by-minute developments from Nautemporiki’s live blog.
