🇱🇧TSF deployed to Beirut to meet with regional stakeholders and identify needs, having established contacts and monitored the crisis in Gaza and the Middle East in the past few months.
Since September 2024, clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border have caused over 1,600 deaths and thousands of injuries, displacing 346,000 people in Lebanon. Over 100,000 of the country's 1.5 million Syrian refugees have returned to Syria. Around 1 million people are directly affected by the crisis, and various initiatives have opened shelters to accommodate the many displaced. Targeted strikes on Beirut continue on a daily basis.
The team on site, led by TSF’s Delegate for Middle East and Africa, has met with national and international NGOs, telecom operators, government agencies and the United Nations. This exploratory mission will enable us to identify communication and information needs in the field and with humanitarian actors, while taking into account the specificities of this situation, particularly in terms of security.
