{"id":55306,"date":"2026-03-10T03:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55306"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:10:49","slug":"almost-700000-displaced-in-lebanon-as-war-enters-second-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55306","title":{"rendered":"Almost 700,000 displaced in Lebanon as war enters second week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIRUT\/JERUSALEM, March 9  &#8211; Escalating hostilities have forced nearly 700,000 \u200bpeople to flee their homes in Lebanon over the past week, a U.N. agency said on Monday, as the war between Israel and the \u200cIran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah entered a second week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon has been pulled deep into the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">war in the Middle East<\/a>&nbsp;since Hezbollah opened fire to avenge the killing of Iran&#8217;s supreme leader, igniting an Israeli offensive which has killed nearly 500 people in Lebanon, according to Lebanese authorities, with the death toll rising by around 100 a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Israeli strikes sent columns of smoke billowing from Beirut&#8217;s Hezbollah-controlled \u200bsouthern suburbs, and over the hilltops of southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security sources in Lebanon said Israeli airstrikes hit five branches of a financial institution run by Hezbollah, \u200bAl-Qard Al-Hassan, in the southern suburbs after Israel announced it would act against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hezbollah fired missiles deep into Israel, setting off \u2060air raid sirens in central Israel and its commercial hub Tel Aviv, as interception blasts sounded as far as Jerusalem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) BEIRUT\/JERUSALEM, March 9 &#8211; Escalating hostilities have forced nearly 700,000 \u200bpeople to flee their homes in Lebanon over the past week, a U.N. agency said on Monday, as the war between Israel and the \u200cIran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah entered a second week. Lebanon has been pulled deep into the&nbsp;war in the Middle East&nbsp;since Hezbollah opened fire to avenge the killing of Iran&#8217;s supreme leader, igniting an Israeli offensive which has killed nearly 500 people in Lebanon, according to Lebanese authorities, with the death toll rising by around 100 a day. On Monday, Israeli strikes sent columns of smoke billowing&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55308,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55306\/revisions\/55308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}