Internally displaced people

Thousands displaced and at least six dead as heavy rains hit Brazil

The National Center for Risk and ‌Disaster ⁠Management issued 22 alerts during the critical period of rains.

Members of NGO GRAD take care of dog, Luk, which was rescued from a partially collapsed house, following heavy rains which have killed residents and left missing people, in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state, Brazil.
Firefighters douse flames in a field after a drone launched from southern Lebanon fell near Kibbutz Snir in the Upper Galilee.

Israeli families vow to stay in North: 'If we're not here, Hezbollah will be here'

A medical operations room provides services in a Jerusalem hotel for those evacuated from their homes in Beit Shemesh following an Iranian missile strike.

Beyond the strikes: How healthcare is holding Israel’s displaced together

Haitian security forces partrol the Prime Minister's office and the headquarters of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 6, 2026.

At least 70 dead in Haiti town after gang attack, human rights director says


The youth of Israel are a reason for hope - opinion

The youth of Israel today are walking in the footsteps of the founders of Zionism. 

 VOLUNTEERS HELP a local raspberry grower in Moshav Avnei Eitan, on the Golan Heights, last December. The youth of Israel today are walking in the footsteps of the founders of Zionism, volunteering to keep agricultural communities alive, says the writer.

As Israel loses the North, IFCJ soup kitchen serves those still living under fire

IFCJ supports 21 soup kitchens across Israel. They have increased funding to the Kiryat Shmona soup kitchen to enable it to provide more meals.

 IFCJ PRESIDENT Yael Eckstein (center) visits a shelter in Kiryat Shmona. ‘I think it’s a very incorrect assumption to feel or think that we, in the rest of Israel, are not connected to what’s happening there.’

A taste of resilience: October 7 survivors from Netiv Ha'asara open cafe in Sarona, Tel Aviv

Other communities scheduled to have cafes include Kibbutz Re'im, Kibbutz Zikim, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, and Sderot.

 Inside Cafe Otef - Netiv Ha'asara in Serona, May 6, 2024.

Israel's North, South evacuees have been forgotten amid Gaza war - opinion

As Purim approaches and we gather for the festive meal, may we not forget those compelled to flee their homes, yet steadfastly clinging to every fragment of hope that our society must extend to them.

 RESIDENTS OF Kibbutz Nir Am were relocated to Herod’s Hotel in Tel Aviv after being evacuated following the October 7 massacre.

While Israel is at war, this org. is building community centers

Ari Zuckerman, chairman of the Israel Association of Community Centers, speaks about the organization’s activities during the war.

 A youth tent created by IACC in Eilat, March 2024.

Israeli gov't expected to extend evacuation orders along northern border

As of February, there are still upwards of 100,000 internally displaced residents of Israel's northern and southern communities.

 Residents of Kiryat Shmona are evacuated due to the threat from Lebanon, in late October. Instead of taking the fight to enemy territory, Israel has withdrawn from territory and evacuated around 100,000 of its residents along the border, says the writer.

Israeli chefs bring a taste of home to displaced Israelis

Some 200,000 evacuated Israelis are being hosted in hotels across the country, and one of the main things they yearn for is familiar food. Chefs are rising to the challenge and adjusting their menus.

  Volunteers prepare food for displaced people.

UN expects wave of Palestinian refugees due to Israel-Hamas war

Flight from Israel's bombardment of Gaza since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel has internally displaced 85% of the Palestinian enclave's population.

 An aid truck arrives at a UN storage facility as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in the central Gaza Strip October 21, 2023

Nitzanim launching emergency initiatives to support Israel amid war with Hamas

The organization is assisting Israeli nonprofits that are providing support to displaced communities.

 Displaced children taking part in KKL-JNF activities.

Israel's public housing to forego rent for families of hostages, displaced civilians

Residents of public housing who belong to these groups will be able to submit an application starting December 1 to have their rent canceled for the duration of the war.

 Israeli Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf is seen at an Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, Israel, on June 19, 2023.