it's a whole host of different pressures on the state,' he said. 'If you look at the government's contingency plan, it doesn't have money to deal with this from a central point of view. Jacob Boswall, Leader of the Lebanon Crisis Analysis Team at aid agency Mercy Corps, said Lebanon was straining to absorb this latest shock. 'We've got $750 left in the world,' Mashouz said. Her wounded daughter's hospital treatment all but wiped out their savings. Mashouz's three sons have lost their jobs at a local bakery by moving. 'My husband's car parts shop has now closed during fighting,' Rostom said, checking news to see if her house was among the latest hit by rockets.Īnother Lebanese family, whose home was destroyed by a rocket, said they cannot afford renovations and were in effect homeless. Israeli strikes and shells have destroyed farmland and homes, wiping out income, savings and jobs. Recent displacements are fewer but likely to increase if conflict continues, and this time the country is less prepared.Ī 2019 financial collapse destroyed Lebanon's economy and left its institutions in tatters. The arrival of 1.5 million Syrian refugees during Syria's civil war which started in 2011 put new strain on Lebanon, and spilled into Europe as refugees migrated via dangerous sea routes. A 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah displaced hundreds of thousands.

The influx of Palestinians after the creation of Israel in 1948 helped spark the Lebanese civil war decades later, redrawing its sectarian map as people fled fighting. Lebanon is a country of perpetually displaced people. We don't know where to go,' she said, speaking from a crowded house in the Bekaa valley where three other newly displaced Syrian families were also sheltering. 'We thought we'd finally found a stable life in southern Lebanon. Israeli shelling this month next to the building where she and her family lived, in an area near Rostom's home - a cluster of towns at the Lebanon-Israel border - wounded her teenage daughter.

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