Some migrant domestic workers in Lebanon have been locked in homes while their employers flee from Israel’s air strikes, AFP reports according to the United Nations.

The UN’s International Organisation for Migration said foreign domestic staff were increasingly being abandoned by the Lebanese families to face heightened danger in the conflict.

The IOM raised the plight of Lebanon’s 170,000 migrant workers, many of whom are women from countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

“We are receiving increasing reports of migrant domestic workers being abandoned by their Lebanese employers, either left on the streets or in their homes as their employers flee,” said Mathieu Luciano, the IOM’s head of office in Lebanon.

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