Lebanon’s Displaced Return

Displaced families in Lebanon who return home are faced with piles of rubble

Tens of thousands of residents who have started streaming back into southern Lebanon to check on their homes are finding that they have lost everything

World - ABC News - 23 hours ago

Lebanon’s displaced return to find ‘scorched earth’ after Israeli offensive

Invasion and intense bombing campaign has left a trail of destruction across Hizbollah’s southern heartland

World - Financial Times - 9 hours ago

UN chief says Lebanon ceasefire ‘first ray of hope amid darkness’ in conflict – Middle East crisis live

António Guterres says it is ‘essential’ that signatories of ceasefire ‘respect it in full’. Full report: Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire comes into force Down to the final half-hour before the ...

World - The Guardian - 2 days ago

Middle East latest: Displaced people return to south Lebanon as ceasefire appears to hold

Long-displaced residents of south Lebanon started returning to their homes amid celebrations hours after a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group took effect early Wednesday morning

World - ABC News - 2 days ago

Ceasefire brings calm in Israel and Lebanon, but fears linger among the displaced

The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon appears to be holding following announcements by President Biden, Prime Minister Netanyahu and others.

Families return to destruction in southern Lebanon

Displaced Lebanese are trying to get to their homes after a ceasefire came into force.

BBC on the ground as people return to southern Lebanon

The BBC's Middle East correspondent, Hugo Bachega, is at the main highway between Beirut and the south as people start to return to their homes.

Thousands return to southern Lebanon amid uneasy ceasefire

Displaced people make their way home despite volatile situation and warnings from Israeli military. Middle East crisis – live updates Thousands of people displaced from war-torn southern ...

World - The Guardian - 2 days ago

Israel warns against returning to 60 Lebanon villages

World - Yahoo News - 5 hours ago

Israel prevents return to dozens of villages in southern Lebanon

World - Yahoo News - 10 hours ago

Caught Between Wars, Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Return Home

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians who escaped civil war at home over the past decade have now fled the conflict in Lebanon, seeking safety in their own shattered country.

World - The New York Times - November 11

Israel-Hizbollah ceasefire holds as thousands seek to return home

Israeli military warns Lebanese civilians to stay away from border regions during first day of US-brokered deal to end conflict

Business - Financial Times - 2 days ago

While Syrian refugees don't want to return, officials in Lebanon and Syria see exodus as opportunity

Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have returned to their country since Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment on wide swathes of Lebanon in September

World - ABC News - November 9

Israel launches first airstrike on Lebanon since ceasefire, accusing Hezbollah of breaching truce

The Israeli military says its warplanes have fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage facility

World - ABC News - Yesterday

Family returns to Lebanon to find a crater where their 50-year-old home once stood

The Jawhari family gathered around a gaping crater where their family home once stood in eastern Lebanon, tears streaming as they tried to make sense of the destruction

World - ABC News - 8 hours ago

UN: Rain exacerbating plight of displaced people in Gaza

World - Yahoo News - 4 days ago

Anger and distrust among displaced Israelis at ceasefire deal

Many displaced residents of northern Israel feel unease and mistrust over their PM's deal with Lebanon.

The Paris Olympics displaced nearly 20,000 people, local associations say

A coalition of over 100 organizations has reported that nearly 20,000 individuals were displaced from informal housing in Paris and surrounding areas during preparations for the 2024 Summer Olympics

World - ABC News - November 4

Israel accused of crimes against humanity over forced displacement in Gaza

Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that suggests ‘the war crime of forcible transfer’ of civilians. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” ...

World - The Guardian - November 14

HRW accuses Israel of war crime of forced displacement in Gaza

The rights group says the forced evacuation of 1.9m people amounts to a crime against humanity.

Lebanese Fear That Wherever the Displaced Go, Israeli Bombs Will Follow

Tensions among multiple sects in the country have long lurked just below the surface. As hundreds of thousands flee Israeli airstrikes in the south, those strains are worsening.

World - The New York Times - November 15

Palm Springs approves reparations settlement with displaced families of color

The city of Palm Springs, Calif., will pay nearly $6 million in reparations to Black and Brown families who were displaced from a neighborhood there during the 1960s. The tentative settlement will ...

Politics - The Hill - November 15

Latest typhoon batters the Philippines, displacing about 400,000 people

A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it barreled across the northern Philippines in the ...

World - ABC News - November 17

Latest typhoon lashes the Philippines, causing tidal surges and displacing thousands

Super typhoon Man-Yi swept across the Philippines’ main island of Luzon on Sunday, after triggering more than a million evacuations and damaging buildings.

Israelis displaced by war split over prospect of Hezbollah ceasefire

Some who live close to the border with Lebanon believe a deal would allow them to raise their children in safety, but others say communities are split. There is a crack, a boom and a siren, all ...

World - The Guardian - 4 days ago

Will the Hezbollah Cease-Fire Draw Back Northern Israel Residents Displaced by War?

Some of the tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by the war with Hezbollah worried whether it was safe to go home.

World - The New York Times - 2 days ago

Displaced Lebanese head for homes as fragile truce appears to hold

Thousands are returning south as the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect despite warnings it is not yet safe.

Three dead, over 80,000 displaced as Malaysia prepares for worst floods in a decade

Malaysia is preparing for its worst floods in a decade after heavier-than-expected monsoon rains caused severe flooding that killed three people and displaced more than 90,000

World - ABC News - 10 hours ago

Ceasefire deal announced in Lebanon

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Israeli cabinet approves ceasefire deal with Hezbollah The ...

Politics - The Hill - 3 days ago

AI may displace 3m jobs but long-term losses ‘relatively modest’, says Tony Blair’s thinktank

Rise in unemployment in low hundreds of thousands as technology creates roles, Tony Blair Institute suggests. Artificial intelligence could displace between 1m and 3m private sector jobs in the ...

World - The Guardian - November 8

Typhoon batters storm-weary Philippines and displaces thousands more people as a new storm threatens

Typhoon Toraji has unleashed floods, knocked down trees and caused power outages in the northern Philippines before weakening into a tropical storm and blowing out to the South China Sea

World - ABC News - November 11

Israel committing ethnic cleansing with mass forced displacements in Gaza, Human Rights Watch says

Israeli authorities have caused a forced displacement of Palestinian people in Gaza to an extent that constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report on ...

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