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Most of Lebanon's displacement shelters are full, UN says

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People inspect damage at the site of an Israeli strike, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon September 27, 2024.  

Photo credit: Reuters

UN officials said on Friday most of Lebanon's nearly 900 shelters were full and that people fleeing Israeli militarystrikes were increasingly sleeping out in the open on the street or in public parks.

"Most of the nearly 900 government-established collective shelters in Lebanon have no more capacity," the UN refugee agency's Rula Amin told a Geneva press briefing.