""We were not ready for this," says Kamal Shehadi, the Lebanese minister of technology and AI, and minister of the displaced. "I have to admit that we didn't expect something of this magnitude to happen.""
"Within minutes, families were moving. Within days, nearly 1.3 million people-nearly one in five residents of the country-were forcibly displaced. Schools-turned-shelters were filled past capacity."
"That platform is currently the closest thing Lebanon has to a real-time view of its own humanitarian crisis. It tracks food packages, fuel supplies, hygiene kits, and medicine."
"While the US, Israel, and Iran negotiate, Israel has excluded Lebanon from the ongoing two-week ceasefire. Local media have reported up to 100 Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon within 10 minutes on April 8."
In Lebanon, nearly 1.3 million people have been displaced due to Israeli attacks, representing almost 20% of the population. The government lacks modern digital infrastructure to manage this crisis effectively. A basic database has been created to track essential supplies like food and medicine, but it remains modest by global standards. As negotiations continue between the US, Israel, and Iran, Lebanon remains excluded from ceasefire discussions, leading to ongoing airstrikes and further chaos in the country.
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