Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese head home as fighting eases, many still stranded
Some 400,000 Lebanese uprooted by conflict have returned to southern Lebanon, with more expected to follow in the coming week, the social
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Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese head home as fighting eases, many still stranded
Some 400,000 Lebanese uprooted by conflict have returned to southern Lebanon, with more expected to follow in the coming week, the social affairs secretary stated on Tuesday, encouraged by a lull in the four-month-long dispute between Israel and Hezbollah.
Yet many remain unable to go back. Since Public demonstration, around a million individuals have been forced to flee their homes, and large numbers are still in shelters or temporary housing because their homes are destroyed or uninhabitable, stated Hanine El Sayed.
Roughly 40% of those displaced have now returned to their towns and villages. The number of individuals staying in collective shelters has fallen sharply, to about 13,000 from 37,000, she stated.
While some shelters will remain open for families who cannot return, relief programmes, including urgent condition cash backing, will continue. The number of shelters has dropped from 692 at the height of the crisis to 479, with additional centres opened in Nabatieh for those wanting to stay near their home areas.
El Sayed stated the topline figures conceal a gap between those able to return and those still displaced.
"These are families that are able to return to something, at least the basic minimum," she informed Reuters . "The fact that the others have not returned means they have a much harder condition."
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