He put this Thursday at nearly 100,000 people displaced from the capital of Iran, Tehran, in the first two days after the one launched last Saturday by the United States and Israel against the Central Asian country.
“It is estimated that 100,000 people left Tehran in the first two days after the attacks, with between 1,000 and 2,000 vehicles a day that, according to reports – from the Iranian Police – left the capital, mainly to the north,” the agency said in an information note in which it warns of the “notable deterioration of the humanitarian situation” in the region, where there are already 24.6 million displaced and returned people.
In addition to the bombings, the citizens of the Iranian capital already have to face the first problems of supplying food and drinking water.
The conflict, which has spread to Lebanon, with crossed attacks between the Israeli Army and the Shiite militia party, has caused the departure, on this Monday alone, of almost 10,000 Syrians and 1,000 Lebanese from the south of the country and the south of the capital, Beirut, towards Damascus. The , regarding the duration of the conflict and its consequences, raises fears that the numbers will rise shortly.
The Minister of Social Affairs of Lebanon, Hanin el Sayed, estimated this Wednesday at more than 83,000 internally displaced people. “The number of shelters that are open is 399,” he explained, urging residents of the south to move to the governorates of Mount Lebanon and North, according to the , a figure that organizations on the ground raise above 180,000.
Regional movements
UNHCR already warned earlier this week of new population displacements due to attacks by Israel and Washington on Iran, which has responded by launching attacks against Israeli territory and US interests in the Middle East.
The first groups of people escaping across the common border with , especially people who have families on the other side, have already been detected, and emergency devices have been activated in Armenia, awaiting more exiles.
All this, in a context of generalized crisis: “There are more and more conflicts and refugee crises last on average about ten years,” as Paula Barrachina, spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency in Spain, told the spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency in Spain.
