Displacements

Gaza

Thousands flee Gaza's Rafah after Israel issues new evacuation orders

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said 140,000 people are impacted by the Israeli military's latest displacement orders, which indicate it could soon launch another major ground operation in Gaza's southernmost city.

01/04/2025

Gaza

Palestinians 'live on a miracle' in Gaza despite ceasefire

Following the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, 22-year-old Palestinian Mohammed made the long journey to Gaza's north on foot with his family after 15 months of displacement. There, he found his home destroyed, he told Euronews.

06/02/2025

Gaza

Palestinians in Gaza wake up relieved after first night of ceasefire

Thousands of Gazans have begun to travel back to the homes they evacuated earlier in the war.

20/01/2025

Haiti

Haiti gang violence has displaced more than 1 million people, UN says

Children make up at least half of Haiti’s displaced population, which has tripled within a year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.

14/01/2025

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Thousands of Kurds displaced from Aleppo reach Kurdish areas near Raqqa

Syrian Kurds fled Tel Rifaat in northern Aleppo in large numbers on Tuesday after Turkish-backed rebels seized it from rival US-backed Kurdish authorities. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces largely withdrew and called for a humanitarian corridor to ensure safe passage for civilians.

04/12/2024

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War victims exhumed in Lebanon ahead for funerals in hometowns

The cemetery contained 192 bodies of Lebanese people killed by Israeli attacks on the city of Tyre over the past few months.

03/12/2024

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Aftermath of Israeli airstrikes, Beirut residents seek shelter

An Israeli airstrike, which targeted an office belonging to a Beirut-based TV station, left hollowed-out buildings, broken windows and rubble in a neighbourhood in the Lebanese capital.

25/10/2024

Art

Congregation: Es Devlin to unveil major new work in support of UNHCR

Bringing together portraits, animation, sound sequences and choral performances, the landmark installation at London’s St Mary le Strand Church will be unveiled on Thursday (3 October).

30/09/2024

Syria

Euroviews. Normalising al-Assad’s regime is dangerous and must be abandoned

To all serious policymakers, it is crystal clear that normalising the al-Assad regime is a misguided policy that neglects the fundamental principles of justice, accountability, and the rights of displaced Syrians, Refik Hodžić and Osama Seyhali write.

28/02/2024

United Kingdom

10 million children displaced in 2023 - NGO

"When children lose their homes, they lose almost everything: their access to healthcare, education, food, and safety," a spokesperson for the organisation said.

19/02/2024

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WATCH: Barbers give free haircuts to displaced Gazans in Rafah

A group of barbers in the Gaza strip are giving free haircuts to displaced Palestinians.

15/11/2023

Culture news

A museum in Italy opens its doors to people displaced by deadly floods

Ravenna's Classis museum is offering camp beds and food among its many artefacts to those who lost their homes in the natural disaster.

19/05/2023

Green News

The last 8 years were the world's warmest on record, report warns

In the World Meteorological Organisation's latest State of the Global Climate report, they warn that records have been broken across multiple climate indicators.

21/04/2023

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Migrant camp near Paris dismantled and people evacuated by bus

Around 1,000 homeless people, mainly migrants, who had been camped out since Wednesday in front of the Ile-de-France prefecture in Paris demanding accommodation, were evacuated at dawn and "sheltered" by local authorities

04/09/2021

Democratic Republic Of Congo

Children missing after volcano eruption

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo hundreds of children are still missing after being separated from families fleeing a volcano eruption

05/06/2021

World News

Europe's weather 'forced a record number from their homes in 2020'

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said flooding had triggered a record 120,000 displacements, while 5 major storms displaced 6,200 people across nine countries, “double the annual average for the last decade".

20/05/2021

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Fighting in northwestern Syria 'has deplaced 700,000 since December'

A wave of displacement that has seen around 700,000 people flee a regime offensive in Syria's Idlib region is the biggest of the nine-year-old conflict, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

12/02/2020

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Syrians flee towards Turkish border as government forces advance

Displaced Syrians flee towards the border with Turkey after an offensive by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held northwestern region, Idlib.

28/01/2020

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Hundreds of Syrian civilians flee fighting south of Idlib province

Hundreds of families fled their homes in northwestern Syria amid intense bombardment by Syrian government and Russian forces.

27/01/2020

Indonesia

Officials say quake death toll could rise further

Almost 400 people are known to have died in an earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok last Sunday and officials say the number of victims is still rising

11/08/2018