LONDON: Born in a shelter in Almat in Mount Lebanon governorate after her family fled Israeli bombardment in 2023, two-year-old Sarah has again been forced to flee a wave of violence, this time to Zgharta in northern Lebanon.
“She was born in displacement and now she is displaced again,” Basma Alloush, deputy director of communications at the International Rescue Committee, told Arab News. “Children like Sarah only know displacement. This is the only life they know.”
Sarah is one of more than 300,000 children uprooted in less than three weeks since fighting between Israel and Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah resumed.
The latest conflict was triggered on March 2, when Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets and drones at Israel, saying it was retaliating for the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint US-Israeli strikes on Feb. 28.
The Iran-backed group had reportedly refrained from firing on Israel for 15 months following the ceasefire of November 2024, a period during which Lebanese officials accused Israel of near-daily violations.
