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STORY: UNHCR / LEBANON DISPLACEMENT
TRT: 5:07
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16, 18, 24 AND 26 MARCH 2026, BEIRUT, LEBANON
1.Various shots, Cargo airplane arriving and unloading essential items like blankets for displaced families/ EU and Italy visibility on cargo
2.SOUNDBITE (English) Karolina Lindholm Billing, Unhcr Representative, Lebanon:
“This cargo plane just arrived, bringing essential items like thermal blankets to displaced people and they are now offloading them from the plane so we can deliver directly to displaced people staying at collective shelters in the Bekaa, Beirut and in the north of Lebanon so they can stay warm.”
18 MARCH 2026, BEIRUT, LEBANON
3. Various shots, demolished building and rubles in the streets of Beirut
24 MARCH 2026, BEIRUT, LEBANON
3. Various shots, children and humanitarian workers drawing in a school shelter
16 MARCH 2026, BEIRUT, LEBANON
4. Various shots, Lebanese Sports City where a 1000 person are displaced in it in tents provided by thered cross.
5. Various shots, school in Beirut that turned into a collective shelter
6. Various shots, makeshift shelters, tents and families
Since 2 March, more than one million people – nearly one in five residents, 35 per cent of whom are children – have been forced to flee their homes, and numbers continue to rise. The impact stretches across the entire country, from the south and the Bekaa to Beirut and the north.
People describe fleeing within minutes, taking only what they could carry and fearing they may never see their homes again. More than 135,000 people are currently in some 660 collective shelters, most of them schools, now hosting far beyond their intended capacity, with limited privacy and access to water, sanitation, and basic services.
But this is only part of the displacement crisis. Many more people are staying with relatives, friends, or makeshift arrangements across the country. In Beirut, hundreds sleep in tents by the water front or in cars, because shelters are full, or they rely on daily work to survive. Others stay near their communities despite risks, forced to balance safety, livelihoods and dignity in impossible choices.
