{"id":99579,"date":"2026-05-05T22:42:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99579\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:42:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:42:59","slug":"unhcr-civilians-in-lebanon-flee-in-fear-for-their-lives-despite-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99579\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHCR: Civilians in Lebanon flee in fear for their lives despite ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-05T14:49:28+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Beirut<\/p>\n<p>Civilians in Lebanon continue to<br \/>\nflee their homes despite a ceasefire announced on April 17 between Tel Aviv and<br \/>\nBeirut, the UNHCR warned on Monday, describing a \u201cdeeply fragile\u201d situation<br \/>\nmarked by continued violence and repeated displacement.<\/p>\n<p>The agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/news\/briefing-notes\/unhcr-despite-announced-ceasefire-more-people-are-forced-flee-their-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cited<\/a> Israeli airstrikes,<br \/>\nshelling, demolitions, evacuation orders, and movement restrictions,<br \/>\nparticularly in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley, as key drivers<br \/>\npreventing stability and forcing families to move multiple times. Although<br \/>\nBeirut has not been struck in recent weeks, residents in affected areas remain<br \/>\n\u201cwith the same fear for their lives\u201d as before the ceasefire, with UNHCR noting<br \/>\nthat at least 380 people have been killed since the truce took effect.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNHCR data, 1,049,328<br \/>\ndisplaced people have been registered through Lebanon\u2019s government relief<br \/>\nplatform. A total of 119,623 internally displaced people are currently hosted<br \/>\nin collective shelters. Insecurity continues to shape civilians\u2019 decisions on<br \/>\nwhether to return to their towns or remain displaced, while many residents are<br \/>\nstill not permitted to return to areas under Israeli control in the south.<\/p>\n<p>Cross-border displacement has also<br \/>\nintensified. Since renewed escalation on March 2, more than 310,000 Syrians<br \/>\nhave crossed into Syria from Lebanon, citing the absence of viable<br \/>\nalternatives, as humanitarian operations remain constrained with only 38% of<br \/>\nthe Lebanon Flash Appeal funded.<\/p>\n<p>Large-scale damage has spread across<br \/>\nmultiple regions, impacting homes belonging to hundreds of thousands of people<br \/>\nas well as critical infrastructure. Data from the National Council for<br \/>\nScientific Research in Lebanon shows that 428 housing units were destroyed and<br \/>\na further 50 damaged in just the first three days of the ceasefire. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fragile ceasefire must be<br \/>\nupheld to enable safe returns for displaced families and be matched by<br \/>\nsustained international support,\u201d the agency affirmed. <\/p>\n<p>Lebanese authorities reported more<br \/>\nthan 8,500 Israeli violations, including shelling, excavation operations, and<br \/>\nthe use of phosphorus munitions. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz described<br \/>\nthe military approach as modeled on operations in Gaza, involving large-scale<br \/>\ndestruction. According to Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry, the escalation has killed<br \/>\n2,702 people and wounded 8,311 others since early March, including women and<br \/>\nchildren. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-05T14:49:28+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Beirut Civilians in Lebanon continue to flee their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3065,9249,37,93,1037,34833,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-99579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-displacement","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-lebanon","12":"tag-unhcr","13":"tag-unhcr-civilians-in-lebanon-flee-in-fear-for-their-lives-despite-ceasefire","14":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116524390975421543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}