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A migrant who fled their home because of economic hardship is an economic migrant, and strictly speaking, not a displaced person.; If the displaced person was forced out of their home because of economically driven projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam in China, the situation is referred to as development-induced displacement.
Gaza’s 2.3 million people rely almost entirely on humanitarian aid for survival, especially now that over 90 per cent has been displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the territory.
“Displaced people, already living through the unlivable due to the war, are now battling heavy rainstorms,” UNRWA said. The UN agency has called for Israel to allow the entry of more winter ...
Although they do not fit the definition of refugees set out in the UN Convention, people displaced by the effects of climate change have often been termed "climate refugees" [9] or "climate change refugees". [10] The term 'environmental refugee' is also commonly used and an estimated 25 million people can currently be classified as such. [11]
In response, Israel imposed a total siege on Gaza and launched an air, sea and ground assault that has killed more than 11,000 people, most of them women and children, according to Gazan officials.
In addition to the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who had already been displaced since October 2023, 90,000 more were initially reported to have been displaced in the immediate aftermath of the 23 September strikes. [19] On that day, those fleeing south Lebanon were stuck in traffic as two-hour journeys turned into daylong journeys. [20]
More than 4,200 people have been displaced from villages in south Lebanon by clashes on the border with Israel, and local officials said Friday that they are ill-prepared for the much larger ...
As of December 2022, a minimum of 580,000 people were estimated to be dead; with 13 million Syrians being displaced and 6.7 million refugees forced to flee Syria. The Ba'athist government and its security apparatus have arrested and tortured numerous repatriated refugees, subjecting them to forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions .