Rajaa Khreiss, a displaced Lebanese woman from the southern village of Khiyam, near the border with Israel, who has been displaced five times in her life and suffers from lung cancer, reacts as she speaks about her health and private situation at her family's shelter in a makeshift encampment, amid a temporary ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, in Beirut, Lebanon April 26, 2026. (Credit: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
BEIRUT — PepsiCo Middle East and its Lebanese franchisee, SMLC (Société Moderne Libanaise pour le Commerce), announced in a statement that they have made a donation of about $1 million to help those displaced by the war between Hezbollah and Israel.
This aid will be distributed "to support humanitarian response efforts through reliable organizations including the Lebanese Red Cross, the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon, the Lebanon Food Bank, and the International Rescue Committee," in order to provide emergency medical supplies, support for shelter centers, food aid, hygiene kits, and other essential relief services.
The wars between Hezbollah and Israel have forced more than a million people to flee their homes. Many have nowhere to return to, as Israel is destroying entire villages in a de facto "buffer zone" it has unilaterally decided to create in southern Lebanon.
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