Coordinating relief: Support Lebanon’s urgent humanitarian needs

Lebanon is in the midst of an unprecedented displacement crisis as Israeli attacks continue unabated. I say unprecedented not only because of the sheer number of people forced from their home – more than 872,000 displaced inside Lebanon as of this writing, including 400,000 children, and a further 400,000 people who have fled to Syria – but also because of the scale of destruction, loss and suffering that have come with this displacement. The fact that this humanitarian calamity takes place in a relatively small country against the backdrop of a major economic crisis is hardly fathomable. The struggles of Lebanon’s displaced are not limited to physical displacement but extend to loss of livelihood, separation from family, and the scarcity of basic resources. People I have spoken with reported feeling alienated and treated as second-class citizens within their own country, adding to the emotional toll of their experiences. “It is