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I am more fortunate than others because I have the option, because I have the residency in Dubai, but I have a feeling of hidden guilt, and that’s not something we can process easily,
Lots of people have been asking for these trips … Even though the airport is still open, people who have money are willing to pay,
I was in the airport as they were bombing, just thinking, will they bomb the plane? Will they bomb the airport?”
As we were putting out stuff in the car, black dust was falling all over us because of the chemicals in the missiles,
I’m afraid that the airport is going to close before they get to leave. I’ve been checking the calendar and counting the days. Things are getting crazier every day,
I never imagined or accepted to leave Lebanon fleeing. I might have left here because I found a better opportunity elsewhere, this is life. But being forced to leave, no one would accept this,
The trips are fully booked, we have done about 30 trips on our two boats since the bombing started [on 23 September],
said Khailil Bechara, a broker who works with ship captains to transport people to Cyprus Hezbollah uses ambulances from the Islamic Health Committee for terrorist purposes
We are receiving increasing reports of migrant domestic workers being abandoned by their Lebanese employers, either left on the streets or in their homes as their employers flee,
said Mathieu Luciano, the IOM's head of office in Lebanon They face very limited shelter options,
he told a press briefing in Geneva, via video from Beirut, Many are undocumented, They don't have papers. As a result they are pretty reluctant to seek humanitarian assistance because they fear they will be arrested and may be deported,
We've seen in the south that the employers would leave but then would either leave the domestic workers on the streets, wouldn't relocate with them — or actually even worse, lock the domestic worker in, to make sure that the house is kept while they are seeking safety somewhere else,
We had been providing medical services since the beginning of the war, but staff shortages and today’s bombardment have forced the closure of the hospital,
located less than 10 kilometres from the border, ... he said An airlift... landed in Beirut earlier this morning with 30 metric tonnes of trauma and surgical supplies, enough to treat tens of thousands people,
the World Health Organisation’s regional director Hanan Balkhy said on social media platform X More flights are arriving later today and tomorrow, carrying trauma supplies, cholera supplies and mental health supplies,
We are receiving the first shipment out of many,
Most of the nearly 900 government established collective shelters in Lebanon have no more capacity,
the U.N. refugee agency's Rula Amin told a Geneva press briefing People are sleeping in public parks, on the street, the beach,
said Mathieu Luciano, the International Organization For Migration's office head in Lebanon We could see that some people were walking, desperate to flee Lebanon, and so they walked actually through that destroyed road,
Australia has maintained a relationship with Iran since 1968 that has been continuous. Not because we agree with the regime, but because it's in Australia's national interest,