An ambulance passes along the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli strike, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran continues, in Sour, Lebanon, March 27, 2026. (Credit: Yara Nardi / Reuters)
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar visited Saida on Sunday morning for a series of meetings with local officials and elected representatives from southern Lebanon to address the situation of those displaced by Israeli bombings. Saida Governor Mansour Daou took part in these meetings.
The minister also met with the disaster management unit, gathering information from the Lebanese Red Cross on the situation on the ground, the impact of population displacements, and the needs of both the displaced and residents who have remained in place.
The Ministry of Health announced that the total number of victims from the conflict that began on March 2 has killed 1,189 and injured 3,427. Among those killed are 124 children and 86 women, as well as 51 rescue workers. This escalation has caused more than one million people to be displaced, or 20 percent of Lebanon’s population.
