Lebanon's refugees turn to Hezbollah for shelter from the storm

THE battle between Israel and Hezbollah has caused a massive humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, driving as many as 500,000 Lebanese from their homes, according to United Nations estimates.

Frazzled refugees flooding Beirut are struggling to find food, water and medicine. They are sleeping in city parks, abandoned cellars and sweltering schools in the capital.

Traumatised and disoriented, many staggering in from the country's south, they are living without clean drinking water, showers or a change of clothes.

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Her husband was hurt in the attack, along with several other family members. "We're not getting medicine," she said. "They come and ask what we want, write it down and leave." The Government has opened the schools of Beirut to the sudden wave of refugees, but most of the shelters are being run by the cadres of Hezbollah, along with a few other non-governmental organisations.

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