According to Lebanon’s Disaster Risk Management Unit (DRMU), more than 500,000 people have fled Lebanon for Syria since September 23, when Israel intensified attacks in the country.
Among those who crossed the border, 348,237 are Syrian citizens and 156,505 are Lebanese citizens, the DRMU said.
Authorities have registered at least 190,975 internally displaced people “in approved shelters,” but the numbers are likely much higher.
The DRMU said psychosocial support programs and activities as well as protection for children, women, people with disabilities and the elderly have been established in the shelters.
The unit also noted that, in the last 24 hours, “125 air strikes and bombings were recorded in various areas of Lebanon, mainly concentrated in the South and in the city of Nabatiyeh, bringing the total number of attacks since the beginning of the aggression to 11,085”.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health issued a statement this Friday (25) saying that in the last 24 hours, at least 41 people were killed and another 133 were injured in Israeli attacks across the country.
Attacks between Israel and Hezbollah
Israel and Hezbollah have been carrying out attacks against each other for more than a year. On Friday afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that approximately “45 projectiles fired by the terrorist organization Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel.”
Israel says around 60,000 people have been displaced from the north of the country since Hezbollah began firing rockets on October 8 last year in support of Hamas in Gaza, after the militant group launched deadly attacks on Israel a day before.
Understand the escalation in conflicts in the Middle East
Iran’s missile attack on Israel on October 1 marked a new stage in the regional conflict in the Middle East. On one side of the war is Israel, with support from the United States. On the other, the Axis of Resistance, which receives financial and military support from Iran and which has a series of paramilitary groups.
There are seven conflict fronts currently open: the Islamic Republic of Iran; Hamas, in the Gaza Strip; Hezbollah, in Lebanon; the Syrian government and the militias operating in the country; the Houthis, in Yemen; Shia groups in Iraq; and different militant organizations in the West Bank.
Israel has soldiers on three of these fronts: Lebanon, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In the other four, it carries out aerial bombings.
The Israeli Army began a “limited ground operation” in Lebanon on September 30, days after Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a bombing of the group’s headquarters in the Beirut suburb.
The Israel Defense Forces say they have killed virtually the entire Hezbollah chain of command in similar bombings carried out in recent weeks.
On September 23, Lebanon had its deadliest day since the 2006 war, with more than 500 fatalities.
At least two Brazilian teenagers died in the attacks. Itamaraty condemned the situation and called for an end to hostilities.
With the increase in hostilities, the Brazilian government announced an operation to repatriate Brazilians in Lebanon.
In the West Bank, the Israeli military is trying to dismantle groups opposed to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
In the Gaza Strip, Israel seeks to eradicate Hamas, responsible for the October 7 attack that left more than 1,200 people dead, according to information from the Israeli government. The Israeli operation killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to the enclave’s Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by the Israeli Army on October 16, in the city of Rafah.
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This content was originally published in Israel War: More than 500 thousand people fled from Lebanon to Syria, says the agency on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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