Internally displaced people

'If we're not here, Hezbollah will be here': A family's vow to stay

Despite the shaky ceasefire with Lebanon, this family on Israel’s northern border says it will never leave again

|ByTANIA SHALOM MICHAELIAN
Firefighters douse flames in a field after a drone launched from southern Lebanon fell near Kibbutz Snir in the Upper Galilee.Premium
A medical operations room provides services in a Jerusalem hotel for those evacuated from their homes in Beit Shemesh following an Iranian missile strike. PremiumPremium

Beyond the strikes: how healthcare is holding Israel’s displaced together

As thousands are displaced by missile strikes, Israel’s healthcare system is rebuilding care inside hotels

|ByCHANI KAPLAN
Haitian security forces partrol the Prime Minister's office and the headquarters of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 6, 2026.

At least 70 dead in Haiti town after gang attack, human rights director says

The attack follows United Nations reports that more than 2,000 people were recently displaced by armed raids in nearby Verrettes, prompting residents in Petite-Riviere to flee their homes.

|ByREUTERS
A displaced girl sits in the back of a pick-up truck in Lebanon’s southern city of Sidon on March 15. Lebanon is working to form a delegation to negotiate with Israel in a bid to stop the war with Hezbollah.

'It's like a cancer': Lebanese journalists speak out on life under Hezbollah's grip

Many Lebanese say they are paying the price for a conflict they neither chose nor control.

|ByDANA BEN-SHIMON

Hamas demanded displaced Gazans pay rent on beach tents amid torrential downpour, IDF reveals

Hamas is forcing displaced residents in al-Qarara to pay rent for tent spaces on the Gaza coast after their homes were destroyed, according to the IDF’s Arabic spokesperson.

DECEMBER 14, 2025ByJAMES GENN
An IDF infographic showing the letter from al-Qarara municipality demanding rent payments from displaced Gazans, December 2025.

Attack on monastery in Myanmar's Sagaing kills at least 23, witnesses say

At least 23 confirmed dead, including four children, after a possible airstrike hit a monastary in the Sagaing region of Myanmar.

JULY 11, 2025ByREUTERS
People's Liberation Army PLA members, carry an injured person near Sagaing Region in Myanmar November 23, 2023

Ramat Gan issues instructions for residents displaced by Iranian attacks on civilian homes

The municipality instructed residents on where to go if their home is hit.

JUNE 14, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A rescue personnel walks next to a damaged vehicle at an impact site following missile attack from Iran on Israel, in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 14, 2025

Syria shutters displacement camp Rukban, symbol of Assad regime, people's suffering

Between 2018 and 2019, the number of displaced people in the camp reached 50,000, most of them women and children, according to a Syrian media report.

JUNE 8, 2025BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A little girl walks near makeshift tents at Rukban camp, which lies in no-man's-land off the border between Syria and Jordan in the remote northeast, near Damascus, Syria on September 27, 2018.

Jewish clergy, creatives denounce Trump’s Gaza proposal in full-page NYT ad

Trump’s calls for the takeover of the Gaza Strip were clearly designated as business deals for the 47th US president.

FEBRUARY 14, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An illustration US President Donald Trump and the Gaza Strip

For Israelis still displaced from their homes, reclaiming the kitchen can be an act of hope

Dahan was invited to cook for customers at the cafe, part of the Asif Culinary Institute of Israel, after taking part in the Open Kitchen Project.

NOVEMBER 26, 2024ByDEBORAH DANAN/JTA
Cooking in the kitchen

RSF attack on Sudanese village leaves 85 dead amid escalating violence

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces launched a brutal attack on the village of Galgani, killing at least 85 people, including women and children.

AUGUST 18, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF
Families flee RSF advances in Sudan's El Gezira state, on Sennar Road in the city of al-Dinder, Sennar state, Sudan, July 18, 2024.

We are all family here: Connecting with each other during wartime

It is in times of crisis that we realize how intertwined our lives are.

AUGUST 10, 2024ByHADASSAH CHEN
People take cover as a siren warns of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, into the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, June 19, 2024.

Home Sweet (not) Home: The displaced residents of northern Israel

Some 90,000 Israelis, mainly from the northern communities closest to Lebanon, were sent to hotels around the country in a large-scale humanitarian project.

AUGUST 4, 2024ByNATAN ROTHSTEIN
Posing outside the Dan Jerusalem Hotel (L-R): Herzl Shriki and his daughter Tamar, Shelly Dadia, Leah and Marc Hersch, Shalom Chayut, and Yosef Tzarfati.

The youth of Israel are a reason for hope - opinion

The youth of Israel today are walking in the footsteps of the founders of Zionism. 

JULY 30, 2024ByMICAH HALPERN
VOLUNTEERS HELP a local raspberry grower in Moshav Avnei Eitan, on the Golan Heights, last December. The youth of Israel today are walking in the footsteps of the founders of Zionism, volunteering to keep agricultural communities alive, says the writer.