(11 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 10 October, 2024
1. Various of displaced women and children at a public square
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Othman Belbeisi, IOM regional director for Middle East and North Africa:
"I believe there is a need for much more support. So we all agree the support Lebanon has been receiving so far is minimal, but we are seeing improvement from some key donors and we expect that more funding will come. So there are unmet needs. We work on scaling up by the hour. And we are seeing this across the government and across other U.N. agencies."
3. Various of displaced families
4. Older woman sitting on the road
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Othman Belbeisi, IOM regional director for Middle East and North Africa:
"So we see hundreds of thousands of people who were forced to flee their homes, looking for shelter in safe areas. But also the needs are increasing by the day. So don’t forget that people left with nothing, so those people will require a lot of shelter, food, winterization items, hygiene kits and otherwise."
6. Various of displaced people in public square
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Othman Belbeisi, IOM regional director for Middle East and North Africa:
"It is a bit difficult to track an exact number, but what we know is that more than one million people are affected by the crisis. And we were able so far by today to track 690 displaced. Apologies 690,000 displaced."
8. Public square housing displaced people
9. Mosque by the public square
STORYLINE:
The International Organization for Migration’s regional director has criticised the "minimal" support provided so far for the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the Israeli aerial and ground offensive in Lebanon.
Speaking during his visit to Lebanon, Othman Belbeisi emphasized the urgent need to identify safe locations to accommodate displaced people, as many existing shelters are overwhelmed, he said, based on field assessments.
The Lebanese government has said that some 1.2 million people have been displaced by the conflict, of which Belbeisi said the IOM has been able to verify 690,000, a number that is expected to grow.
While hundreds of thousands have fled across the border into neighboring Syria, Belbeisi said so far the organization has not tracked a major surge in the number of people attempting to flee to other countries by sea, possibly because such journeys would involve a “very high risk with the current situation.”
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