00:00Bombings and airstrikes are forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee Lebanon,
00:05as the Israeli military battles the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah in the ongoing conflict.
00:10At the Masna border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, Amal Ismail's 18-year-old son
00:16is leaving to seek a future she says Lebanon can no longer offer.
00:21It's a painful farewell for Ismail.
00:24My son, my son, she says. This country has no future. It left nothing for the youth.
00:32Her younger daughter plans to leave when she reaches 18 too.
00:38This is my only brother. I don't have any other but him. He went to continue his education and
00:44I will follow him after four years. There's no future in Lebanon anymore.
00:50These families are all also leaving for Syria. The crater they have to cross,
00:56caused by an Israeli strike on October 4, is a stark reminder of the dangers they now face
01:01in Lebanon. This father of five says his family decided to leave after surviving some near misses.
01:08I have children. You can't just stay where you are. We tried going to another place.
01:13We moved from Baalbek, where they hid near my house. We had to leave again. I have children.
01:18We can't stay. We are going to Syria because it could be safer than where we are.
01:25The United Nations Humanitarian Response Agency said on Saturday that more Lebanese have now
01:30been displaced than during the last major war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.
01:36Around one million people fled their homes back then.
01:40On Monday, the head of the United Nations Refugee Agency said 270,000 people had
01:46already fled Lebanon for Syria and warned the displacement crisis could get worse.
01:51Syria has opened the doors to all those fleeing Lebanon. Both Lebanese refugees
01:57and Syrian returnees in Syria need immediate relief assistance.
02:02Filippo Grandi was speaking in Geneva at the annual UN Human Rights Commission meeting.
02:08He reported an unprecedented 123 million people now displaced around the world by conflicts,
02:14persecution, poverty and climate change.
02:18Grandi urged countries to rethink their border measures,
02:21saying tightening them is an ineffective move and sometimes unlawful.
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