'Is this safety ?': Life in a Beirut displacement camp

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Jenan Habash, a single mother from Baalbek, has spent three months in a displacement camp on Beirut's waterfront with her two young daughters, ages 5 and 10. She is one of 175 families living in tents without running water or sanitation facilities. Her question, "Is this safety?", frames the precarious conditions facing internally displaced people in Lebanon, where the camp offers shelter but falls far short of basic humanitarian standards. The displacement reflects ongoing instability in the country that has forced families to flee their homes.