{"id":3386,"date":"2026-06-30T22:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:40:34","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-of-lebanese-head-home-as-fighting-eases-many-still-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3386","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese head home as fighting eases, many still stranded"},"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 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Some 400,000 Lebanese uprooted by war have returned to southern Lebanon, with \u200cmore expected to follow in the coming week, the social affairs minister said on Tuesday, encouraged by a lull in the four-month-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/div>\n<div>Yet many remain unable to go back. Since March, around 1 million people have been forced to flee their homes, and large numbers \u200bare still in shelters or temporary housing because their homes are destroyed or uninhabitable, said Hanine El \u200bSayed.<\/div>\n<div>Roughly 40% of those displaced have now returned to their towns and villages. The number \u2060of people staying in collective shelters has fallen sharply, to about 13,000 from 37,000, she said.<\/div>\n<div>While some shelters will \u200bremain open for families who cannot return, aid programmes \u2014 including emergency cash support \u2014 will continue. The number of shelters has \u200bdropped 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.<\/div>\n<div>El Sayed said the headline figures conceal a gap between those able to return and those still displaced.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;These are families that \u200bare able to return to something, at least the basic minimum,&#8221; she told Reuters. &#8220;The fact that the others have \u200bnot returned means they have a much harder situation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Authorities expect further returns in the coming days and hope within about a week \u200cto better \u2060gauge how many families cannot go back at all.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;In about a week&#8217;s time &#8230; we would really know the size of the problem \u2014 how many absolutely cannot return because their homes have been totally damaged,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<h2>CHALLENGES OF GOING HOME<\/h2>\n<div>For many, returning home does not mean a return to normal life. Families are often finding damaged houses, scarce electricity and water, \u200band destroyed businesses and livelihoods, \u200bas the government works \u2060to restore basic services and expand cash assistance, rental support and employment programmes.<\/div>\n<div>Yet despite these hardships, many are choosing to return.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Many of the people of the south are very attached \u200bto their land and they want to rightfully make a claim back to it,&#8221; \u200bEl Sayed said.<\/div>\n<div>The \u2060government estimates Lebanon will need billions of dollars to rebuild damaged homes and infrastructure, funding that it does not currently have, El Sayed said.<\/div>\n<div>Nearly 90,000 housing units have been totally or partially destroyed in the latest conflict, adding to widespread damage from \u2060earlier \u200bfighting.<\/div>\n<div>Israel and Lebanon last week signed a U.S.-brokered framework agreement setting out \u200ba phased process under which the Lebanese army would take control of areas now occupied by Israeli forces as Hezbollah is disarmed. 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