Photos – Inside a classroom at a vocational school that was hastily transformed into a shelter for displaced people with only a number of mattresses and blankets, Mustafa al-Sayed stands between his wife and children, complaining about the poor conditions they live in after they were forced to flee the village of Beit Leif, near the Lebanese border with Israel.
Mr. recounts his suffering to Al Jazeera Net, saying, "Because of the Israeli shelling on homes and agricultural lands, which caused the martyrdom of a number of civilians, we left our homes and could not take only some clothes."
"Because we don't have the money, we turned to the Union of Municipalities' shelter, which provides us with food and some cleaning tools, but we have a lot of shortcomings, we want a washing machine to wash the clothes we have been wearing for days, and we don't know how long we will be here before we can go home," he said.
He points out that many families share a shared bathroom, often cutting off water and electricity, adding to people's suffering.
In the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, there are more than 1500,<> families, displaced from villages on the border strip to escape Israeli shelling, distributed among a number of shelters in public and private schools prepared by the Disaster Management Unit of the Union of Tyre Municipalities.
In conjunction with the Israeli war on Gaza since October 7, the Lebanese border has witnessed an intermittent exchange of fire between the Israeli occupation army on the one hand, and Hezbollah and Palestinian factions on the other, which led to dozens of deaths and injuries on both sides.
Displaced people hope the war will end as soon as possible so they can return to their homes (Al Jazeera)
Anticipation and anxiety
The situation is not much different with the octogenarian pilgrim Musa al-Musa from the village of al-Bustan, who was forced to flee with his grandchildren and some of his children, leaving his wife with two sons to take care of sheep in pastures and agricultural lands near the village, which is under continuous Israeli bombardment.
He says to Al Jazeera Net, "I have displaced with my children for fear of our lives, but because we are shepherds sheep Bedouins, I had to leave my wife and two sons to take care of livestock in the pastures located between the areas of Al-Dhahira and the flag of the people, and we live in constant anxiety for fear of being exposed to any harm, God forbid."
"Despite everything, thank God, we are still safe and we communicate daily by phone with our children and relatives who preferred to stay at the border, and we are assured of their safety," he added.
"From the second day of the battle of Toufan al-Aqsa, clashes began along the border, and the Israeli occupation army began shelling the border areas with phosphorus bombs, so we had to leave our homes and go to Tyre in search of safety," his son Khaled said.
Khaled said many homes were burned or damaged by the ongoing Israeli bombardment.
Despite all that happened to him and his family, Khaleda feels happy and proud of what the Palestinian resistance in Gaza has done, "which humiliated the Israeli occupation in the battle of the Al-Aqsa flood."
He adds: "We know that when the Israeli occupation suffers pain or defeat, it retaliates by committing massacres and bombing unarmed civilians, but we say God will grant victory to the people of Gaza and we are with them in this battle.
Financial pressures
As the escalation continues, Tyre district has welcomed more than 10,<> displaced people, which poses a major challenge to the coastal city's disaster management unit, which is working around the clock to manage the ongoing flow of displaced people.
Hassan Hammoud, deputy head of the Federation of Municipalities of Tyre District, acknowledges that the unfortunate economic situation in the country and the lack of ministries' funds to support the displaced complicate the efforts of the Disaster Unit in providing adequate support to the displaced.
He adds to Al Jazeera Net that since the second day of the war, the occupation forces began firing bullets and phosphorous bombs towards the border villages, forcing people to leave their homes and go to safer areas such as the city of Tyre.
He stressed that the Disaster Management Unit opened 3 shelters since the first day of the displacement movement, and registered the displaced and estimated their special needs, and with the increase in the number of displaced people, we established a fourth center.
According to Hammoud, there are 800 displaced people in the shelters of the Union of Municipalities, some of whom are poor and daily workers in the field of herding and agriculture, while the rest have moved to live with relatives in Tyre or Saida, or rented apartments to live there.
He pointed out that in the absence of government financial allocations, the Union of Municipalities resorted to charitable, international and humanitarian associations to provide the humanitarian needs of the displaced, especially 3 daily meals from the kitchens of the Imam Sadr Foundation, drinking water and cleaning means.
Hammoud appealed to government and charitable bodies and international organisations to help provide for the daily and humanitarian needs of these displaced people.