Migrants displaced by fighting between Israel and Hezbollah shelter at church in Beirut

Описание: (11 Mar 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut - 11 March 2026
1. Various of displaced migrants in line for medical checks
2. ⁠Various of man getting his blood pressure measured by an aid worker
3. ⁠Aid worker pointing a thermometer to the forehead of a man to measure temperature
4. ⁠Close of box of medicines
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Shehab, nurse with Doctors Without Borders:
“We at Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) came today to this shelter for migrants who were displaced here because of the war. We open their medical files, doctors examine them, and we give them medication according to their needs. There are also psychologists available to assess their psychological needs."
6. Various of displaced woman migrant sitting on the floor with her children
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasmina (last name not given), displaced migrant worker:
“I have been here in Lebanon for a long time. I have been here for twenty years. I am from the south, from Tyre. In 2024 there was also a war, and the building where I used to work was destroyed and everything was lost. Now in 2026 the war has started again, so I went to Nabatieh and the situation was the same. Then I came here, just like what happened in 2024 as well."
8. Various of displaced migrants waiting
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasmina (last name not given), displaced migrant worker:
“I do not want to go to Sri Lanka. My husband is Sudanese. I am married to a Sudanese man, and I have two children. If I want to travel to Sri Lanka, it would be very difficult."
10. Various of displaced migrant with personal belongings
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Gemayel, Regional communications at JRS MENA:
“So we are at St. Joseph’s Church. This is a Jesuit church. Migrant and workers, domestic workers usually come here every Sunday for do their social and religious activities, so this is a safe space for them and they usually know this building. So, when the war started, this is the first safe place they thought of, so they came here. During the first night, at 3 a.m., we opened the church and turned it into a shelter. We started receiving and registering people. We had around 100 people waiting in the parking lot, more were sleeping in the parking. So we started registering them, now we have around 200 domestic workers in this building. Our full capacity of the shelter is 80 people, but currently we have 200. So, we are also looking for another building that we can turn into a shelter,
we are still trying to find another place because it's at full capacity now and we are also receiving more requests to join this building."
12. Various of displaced migrants sleeping on ground
13. Various of displaced migrants at temporary shelter
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sikalsh (last name not given), displaced migrant worker:
“I came from Ethiopia to work here and support myself, my family, and my siblings. Now there is war in our country, there is war in Sudan, and here as well. Everywhere we go there is war."
15. Various of displaced migrants sleeping on ground
STORYLINE:
Dozens of migrants who have been displaced by the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah have taken shelter at a church in Beirut where aid agencies are helping them.

Lebanon’s Minister of Social Affairs Haneen Sayed said the war has displaced 780,000 people in the country so far, of whom 120,000 are staying in shelters.

At the Saint Joseph Church in east Beirut, 200 migrants from different countries who have been displaced from southern and eastern Lebanon as well as Beirut's southern suburbs gathered inside the facility.






Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter:   / ap_archive  
Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​
Instagram:   / apnews  


You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...