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Anera’s Lebanon Country Director on the Displacement Crisis From Beirut

by Anera

April 14, 2026

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Over a million people have been displaced across Lebanon just one month into the war, with overcrowded collective shelters struggling to meet urgent humanitarian needs. Samar El-Yassir, Anera’s Lebanon and Jordan country director, shares what’s happening on the ground, where families have fled their homes with nothing and shelters are beyond capacity.

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