Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, says that as many as a million people have been displaced since the start of the Israeli airstrikes in his country. People fleeing bombardments in south and east Lebanon have fled to Beirut. Many have nowhere to go and are sleeping on the streets. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on the conditions they are facing in Beirut.
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