Lebanon: Migrant workers struggle to find shelters and safety as Israel rains bombs

With airstrikes across Lebanon, including the capital, many migrant workers have been abandoned by their employers and left to fend for themselves on the streets of  Beirut after being turned back from shelters or excluded from state or charity services with displaced Lebanese nationals prioritised over foreigners. 

Israeli bombing of Lebanon has displaced around 1 million people and in the capital, some are forced to sleep on the beach or streets with hotels, schools, hotels, and even nightclubs that have acted as temporary shelters, full.

Some of Lebanon's 176,000 migrant workers, mostly women who work as domestic helpers, have been left to fend for themselves.

The streets of downtown Beirut were lined with dozens of migrant workers who were dropped there by organisers as shelters refused to accommodate them.

Some told local media outlets that their employers had fled the country and left them behind in Beirut.