Cristina El Khoury, postgraduate researcher University of Geneva and former SCMR Visiting fellow, 2025 9 March 2026: 700,000 people are displaced across Lebanon. Behind this number lies a familiar yet devastating pattern: families leaving southern towns in the middle of the night,…
Displaced Before the Strike: Evacuation Warnings and Anticipatory Displacement in Lebanon
Hucen Sleiman, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. As of 9 March 2026, around 700,000 people are displaced across Lebanon, fleeing bombardment in the south, Beirut’s southern suburbs, and parts of the Bekaa Valley to seek refuge further…
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