{"id":14362,"date":"2026-03-08T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=14362"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:32:03","slug":"more-than-500000-displaced-in-lebanon-as-israel-escalates-attacks-israel-attacks-lebanon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=14362","title":{"rendered":"More than 500,000 displaced in Lebanon as Israel escalates attacks | Israel attacks Lebanon News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><button class=\"article-listen-container\" aria-labelledby=\"listen-text listen-duration\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-button\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-listen-container__text\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-text\">Listen to this article<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"article-listen-container__duration\">3 mins<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/button><button tabindex=\"0\" class=\"tooltip-accessible_trigger\"><svg class=\"icon icon--info icon--main-grey-dark icon--16 listen-to-article-tooltip__icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\"><title>info<\/title><path class=\"icon-main-color\" d=\"M12 0a12 12 0 1 0 0 24 12 12 0 0 0 0-24Zm-.226 3.225a2.039 2.039 0 0 1 2.155 1.924v.193a1.998 1.998 0 0 1-2.155 2.149 2.029 2.029 0 0 1-2.146-2.15 2.039 2.039 0 0 1 1.955-2.122h.193l-.002.006Zm3.227 15.525a.75.75 0 0 1-.752.75H9.75a.75.75 0 0 1-.75-.75v-1.5a.75.75 0 0 1 .752-.75h.748V12h-.75a.75.75 0 0 1-.75-.75v-1.5a.75.75 0 0 1 .752-.751h3a.75.75 0 0 1 .75.752v6.75h.75a.75.75 0 0 1 .75.749L15 18.75Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>More than half a million people in Lebanon have been registered as displaced after fighting restarted between Israel and Hezbollah following the United States and Israel\u2019s war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed told a press briefing on Sunday that the total number of people who had registered on a website affiliated with the ministry reached 517,000, including 117,228 in government shelters, since fighting in Lebanon resumed on Monday.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 2 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>The announcement comes as Israel widened its military campaign in Lebanon, striking for the first time into the heart of Beirut, a significant escalation in a conflict that has killed 394 people in Lebanon in a week, including 83 children, 42 women and nine rescue workers, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Sunday, an Israeli drone struck a hotel room in Raouche, a seafront neighbourhood of the Lebanese capital popular with tourists and, more recently, with thousands of displaced Lebanese who had fled fighting elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>At least four people were killed 10 were wounded, Lebanese health officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel said the attack targeted senior commanders of Iran\u2019s elite Quds Force, the overseas operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commanders of the Quds Force\u2019s Lebanon Corps operated to advance terror attacks against the state of Israel,\u201d the Israeli military said.<\/p>\n<p>Raouche had been spared during Israel and Hezbollah\u2019s last war, which ended with a ceasefire in November 2024 although Israel had engaged in near-daily violations of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Israeli army also announced that two Israeli soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon, the country\u2019s first fatalities since fighting between Israel and Hezbollah resumed last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaster Sergeant Maher Khatar, aged 38, from Majdal Shams \u2026 fell during combat in southern Lebanon,\u201d the military said, confirming that a second soldier died in the same incident.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon was pulled back into war on Monday when Hezbollah fired rockets and drones into Israel in response to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint Israeli-United States air strikes last month.<\/p>\n<p>Israel responded with a ferocious air assault across the south, east and Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. Israeli ground forces, meanwhile, have been pushing into southern Lebanon, seizing hilltops near the border.<\/p>\n<p>Tanks and armoured bulldozers have been massing at the frontier, fuelling fears of a full-scale Israeli invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has continued launching rockets and drones into northern Israel daily, saying its forces were involved in clashes with Israeli troops near the border town of Aitaroun on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said \u201cthere are now serious concerns being raised\u201d in Israel about attacks being launched from Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no advanced notice for these northern communities. They have a few seconds to rush to the shelters, and there is now consideration of evacuating those northern communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah, Odeh said, has been able to target cities as far as Nahariya and Haifa as its forces battle Israel. \u201cHaifa, that strategic city which has a lot of military and intelligence assets, is also being targeted by Hezbollah and Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said, \u201cOur country has been drawn into a devastating war that we did not seek and did not choose,\u201d warning that the scale of displacement could produce \u201cunprecedented\u201d humanitarian and political consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Israel said it has killed about 200 Hezbollah fighters since hostilities resumed.<\/p>\n<p>The armed group has not published its own toll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this article\u00a0|\u00a03 mins info More than half a million people in Lebanon have been registered as displaced after fighting restarted between Israel and Hezbollah following the United States and Israel\u2019s war on Iran. 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