'I want to go home' - life in a Lebanese shelter

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Since October, around 100,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in southern Lebanon. RTÉ Deputy Foreign Editor Edmund Heaphy visited a government-run shelter in the Lebanese city of Tyre.

Even as a school, Tyre Vocational and Technical school would be considered dilapidated. The paint on the walls is peeling, the bathrooms are basic. There is no air conditioning.

A set of plastic garden chairs and a teacher's desk are the only pieces of furniture in the tiny classroom where they now live. Her father, Ali, told RTÉ News that she understands why this has happened. But Aya still wants to go home. "What is happening in Gaza is absolutely tragic, but it is unfortunately having broader geopolitical and regional consequences here in the Middle East," Peter Power, the Executive Director of UNICEF Ireland, said.

Nearly eight months after they left their homes, she had to reassure her children that they were going to be OK.

 

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