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Lebanon’s largest stadium ready to shelter hundreds of displaced people from the cold

At Camille Chamoun Sports City, Lebanon’s largest sports stadium, workers are working around the clock to build cubicles to house more than half a thousand displaced people who still remain outside Beirut after seven weeks of Israeli bombardment , where the first people lived. The winter rains have just arrived.

Ali Shaur, Banin’s operations director, explains that in a week of non-stop work, workers have been able to build 80 rooms and with another room, they hope will be ready to welcome the first batch of hundreds of displaced people. The charitable association in charge of the project.

Since Israel began its intensive bombing campaign against Lebanon on September 23, 1.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes, according to the latest official situation report, including more than 190,000 in about 1,150 shelters recognized by the authorities. Are in.

Given the magnitude of the displacement crisis, the worst in the history of the small Mediterranean nation, most shelters are full. Particularly in Beirut, where more than 55,000 displaced people attend schools, the numbers are surpassed only by the neighboring province of Mount Lebanon.

To make the situation worse, the capital has recorded its first heavy rainfall of the winter season in recent days, while temperatures have slowly started falling.

According to Shoor, although the Beirut City Council has managed to relocate the “majority” of those displaced people into schools or even private residential buildings, they still number around 500 in this situation. (efe)