Around one million Lebanese displaced by Israeli attacks, official says

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00:00The sheer number of displaced is staggering.

00:03In a nation of nearly six million,

00:05the Lebanese prime minister said that Israeli strikes on Lebanon

00:09may have forced a million people to flee.

00:12Whether they've gone north to Beirut,

00:14east to Syria or southeast to Jordan,

00:16officials say hundreds of thousands have had to evacuate their homes

00:20at the drop of a hat.

00:22Many count their blessings to be alive.

00:26There were a lot of strikes in the area where we live,

00:28so we had no choice but to move.

00:31The road to come here was very difficult.

00:33They were striking cars.

00:34It was by the mercy of God that we made it.

00:37We came without knowing where we were going.

00:40Inside on Lebanon, families did the best they could.

00:44Eking out a bit of shade and setting up makeshift beds in a parking lot.

00:48Schools have been transformed into makeshift points of refuge.

00:52Food distribution areas have been set up.

00:55The Lebanese government says some 250,000 people are now in shelters.

00:59Four times that are elsewhere.

01:01Some have been welcomed by strangers,

01:04fellow citizens who in solidarity have opened up their extra rooms.

01:10Every day when I pass by,

01:11I knock on their door to check up on them and see what they need.

01:15I feel the fear and anxiety in their eyes.

01:18They're always afraid of getting hurt.

01:20That's because of what they went through, what they witnessed.

01:24Already prior to this war,

01:25Lebanon was home to the largest number of refugees per capita

01:29and per square meter in the world,

01:31with around a million and a half Syrian refugees.

01:34This, in conjunction with Lebanon's economic crisis,

01:37means that now that Israeli bombs are raining down,

01:40an already difficult situation has become all the more desperate.

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