{"id":2919,"date":"2026-06-25T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:38:24","slug":"truce-brings-no-relief-for-displaced-from-lebanons-destroyed-occupied-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2919","title":{"rendered":"Truce brings no relief for displaced from Lebanon&#8217;s destroyed, occupied towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>BEIRUT, June 25 (Reuters) &#8211; A long-awaited ceasefire has brought relative calm to Lebanon, but it hasn&#8217;t brought peace of mind to Hussein Merhi.<\/div>\n<div>He is \u200bamong tens of thousands who remain displaced because their homes were destroyed in Israeli strikes or their hometowns fall within a swathe of the south occupied \u200cby Israel&#8217;s military \u2014 or, as in his case, both.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I still can&#8217;t go back to my village. It&#8217;s still occupied. My house is gone, and my livelihood is gone,&#8221; said the onetime farmer, who was living in the historic Lebanese border town of Kfar Kila, which now lies destroyed.<\/div>\n<div>Merhi, 39, spoke to Reuters in a university being used as a shelter in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, following a ceasefire that took hold on Saturday between \u200bIsrael and Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We were displaced, and we&#8217;re going to remain displaced. There&#8217;s a ceasefire \u2014 what did I gain?&#8221;<\/div>\n<h2>&#8216;THERE&#8217;S NO HOUSE, NO VILLAGE&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div>Israel&#8217;s military began an air and ground campaign \u200bin Lebanon in early March in retaliation for armed group Hezbollah&#8217;s fire at Israel in support of Iran.<\/div>\n<div>As it expanded its operations, it ordered \u2060residents to leave large parts of southern Lebanon, as well as areas in the east and near the capital Beirut, some far from the front lines.<\/div>\n<div>More than 1.2 million people were displaced during \u200bthe fighting \u2014 about a fifth of the population. Most of the displaced fled to relatives&#8217; homes in safer areas but tens of thousands moved to government-run displacement shelters.<\/div>\n<div>The ceasefire that took hold on \u200bJune 20 appeared to allow some to return to their villages: out of more than 103,000 in displacement shelters before the ceasefire, about 14,000 had left by Wednesday, according to figures from Lebanese authorities. Local officials in some southern Lebanese towns told Reuters this week that families were returning, but numbers were hard to estimate as many found their homes in ruins.<\/div>\n<div>Lebanon&#8217;s National Council for Scientific Research says more than 90,000 housing units were damaged or \u200bdestroyed across the country from the war&#8217;s start on March 2 until June 12.<\/div>\n<div>Merhi&#8217;s mother, 64-year-old Zahra Chehadeh, told Reuters she hoped the government would provide housing as renting was too expensive \u200bfor her family, who now had no income without access to their farm in Kfar Kila.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Like everyone else, I felt like I wanted to go back to my village, go back to my home. There&#8217;s no \u200chouse, no village, \u2060nothing at all. What am I supposed to feel?&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<div>Israeli troops remain deployed 10 km (6.2 miles) into the south, a zone that includes dozens of Lebanese villages and which Israeli officials say remains off-limits. Israel&#8217;s Defence Minister Israel Katz said earlier in the war that troops would destroy &#8220;all houses&#8221; in villages near the border and that residents would not be allowed to return until northern Israel was safe.<\/div>\n<div>Amnesty International said earlier this month that Israel&#8217;s use of the mass displacement and &#8220;no-return&#8221; orders was a violation of international humanitarian law. Israel&#8217;s military says the orders are intended to protect civilians \u200bfrom harm.<\/div>\n<h2>LONG-TERM DISPLACEMENT LOOMS<\/h2>\n<div>Lebanon and Israel are discussing a \u200bU.S.-backed proposal for Israeli forces to hand some \u2060Lebanese territory to Lebanon&#8217;s military, but it remained unclear how much land Israel would withdraw from, and how quickly.<\/div>\n<div>Authorities have been bracing for a long-term displacement crisis if Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon. Lebanese officials said they were exploring the possibility of pre-fabricated housing or cash-for-rent programs, but finding funds \u200band open land were challenges.<\/div>\n<div>In Beirut, the city council said on Wednesday it was giving people living in makeshift camps along streets time \u200bto gather their belongings &#8220;in preparation \u2060for their final removal in the coming hours&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>That has left some with nowhere to go.<\/div>\n<div>Alaa Kobeissy, who hails from the southern town of Zebdine, said his extended family&#8217;s homes had been too badly damaged for them to return home. He had fled to Iraq during the 2024 war between Israel and Hezbollah and was now displaced again.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The main problem is that I don&#8217;t have a place,&#8221; the 40-year-old told \u2060Reuters on the \u200bstreets of Beirut, with the tarp of his disassembled tent in a pile next to him.<\/div>\n<div>Lebanon has suffered repeated rounds \u200bof conflict and economic crisis in recent decades that have prompted hundreds of thousands of people to emigrate. The latest war came as the country was still struggling to recover from the 2024 conflict.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe in Lebanon have gone from migration to \u200bdisplacement, to migration, to the ground \u2014 we&#8217;ve thrown everything (to the ground): the Lebanese flag, the tents, and our belongings.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2917\">Oil back to pre-war levels as Hormuz traffic rebounds, US tries to reassure Gulf allies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2915\">France sounds alarm as Europe\u2019s deadly heatwave takes its toll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2913\">Wall Street trading to surge as Russell 1000 index set to add SpaceX, small-cap stocks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-awaited ceasefire has brought relative calm to Lebanon, but it hasn&#8217;t brought peace of mind to Hussein Merhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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