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Lebanon registers more than half a million displaced by Israeli attacks <article data-history-node-id="435154" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-registers-more-half-million-displaced-israeli-attacks" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-registers-more-half-million-displaced-israeli-attacks" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Lebanon registers more than half a million displaced by Israeli attacks</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Lebanon's social affairs minister said on Sunday that more than half a million people had been registered as displaced since the outbreak of the new war between Israel and Hezbollah.</p> <p>In a press briefing, Haneen Sayed said that the total number of people who registered their names on a website affiliated with the ministry reached 517,000, including 117,228 people in government shelters.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A displaced person sits outside a car loaded with belongings, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, 8 March, 2026. (Reuters)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="e9d9445f-f504-4943-9319-c4c87608da49" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2026-03-08T143743Z_1707444304_RC2C0KAQDNPF_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-CRISIS-LEBANON%20%281%29.jpg" width="3908" height="2587" alt="A displaced person sits outside a car loaded with belongings, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, 8 March, 2026. (Reuters)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A displaced person sits outside a car loaded with belongings, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, 8 March, 2026. (Reuters)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url("https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png") rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article> https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-registers-more-half-million-displaced-israeli-attacks