International Organisation for Migration chief Amy Pope tells AFP in Beirut that the prospect for prolonged mass displacement in Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah are at war, is “very alarming”.

“I think those prospects are very alarming because you look right now at the level of destruction that’s happening and… the further destruction that has been threatened,” she has replied when asked about the possibility of prolonged mass displacement, adding that “even if the war ends tomorrow, that destruction remains and there needs to be a rebuilding”.