Security source denies rumor that ISF is removing displaced people’s tents in Ramlet al-Bayda

BEIRUT — Following reports that the Internal Security Forces (ISF) was heading to Ramlet al-Bayda in Beirut to remove the displaced people's tents from the Corniche, a security source denied these claims.

The source explained that the ISF has been asking the displaced staying in the area to relocate into shelters.

Lebanon's social development minister said on Sunday that more than half a million people had been registered as displaced since the outbreak of the new war between Israel and Hezbollah on March 2. She added that 117,228 of them are now living in government shelters.

According to the rumors, the ISF had put a deadline at 4 pm on Monday for all the tents to be removed in Ramlet al-Bayda, adding that a large large force from al-Fouhoud — the highly-trained elite unit of the ISF — headed to the area prohibit tents and ban the presence of any displaced people.

Contacted by L'Orient Today, a security source said that the ISF is just directing the displaced people in Ramlet al-Bayda to the shelters they can head to, especially that the Beirut's Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium has started receiving displaced people on Saturday.