Cycle of displacement For residents of southern Lebanon, this latest war represents another chapter of displacement. slon9 cc Nearly 1.3 million Lebanese have been displaced, according to the International Rescue Committee. Most are from Shiite communities, many of whom who had already been forced from their homes in 2024.
Hassan Rammal is one of those people. slon6 cc His village of Adaisseh is located right on the Israel-Lebanon border. Many of its residents, like Rammal himself, support Hezbollah.
The 62-year-old businessman fled with his wife and three sons to Beirut at the beginning of 2024, hoping he would be back once the war calmed down. slon9 cc “Displacement has a sense of tragedy. To leave your memories, your home, to leave everything you have planted; everything you have built and grown with your own hands,” he told CNN.