Israel Lebanon: Up to one million displaced people possible

According to Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, up to one million people could be displaced by Israel's attacks. It is already the largest number of displaced persons in the country's history, Mikati said in Beirut. There can only be a diplomatic solution to the current conflict with Israel: "There is no choice for us but diplomacy."

According to UN figures, more than 210,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon since the start of the new confrontations between Israel's army and Hezbollah, including around 120,000 in the course of last week alone. However, according to the United Nations, the number could be significantly higher, also based on the experience of the last war with Israel in 2006.

Many people are also sleeping in parks, on the street or on the beach for fear of further attacks in the south, east or around the capital Beirut. 50,000 Syrians and Lebanese have also fled to the neighboring civil war country of Syria.

SDA