#forced-displacement

#forced-displacement

The peremptory order caught him out of the house. When he returned, his family and most of his neighbors had already fled. He hurried to pack two changes of clothes in the first bag he found and, before setting off on his motorcycle, he tied a white cloth to a long pole: It was a flag as a sign of peace, to avoid any attacks on the three-hour journey, says the social leader, who requests anonymity.

This post is the second in a three-part series based on a 2023 qualitative study conducted by The Fund for Armenian Relief's (FAR's) Child Protection Center (CPC) to explore the psychological and social dynamics of forced displacement, using Armenia's integration of more than 115,000 displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) as a contemporary case study. In, we examined how displacement disrupts identity and belonging and efforts to understand the psychological impacts on both displaced individuals and host societies.

Hundreds of Palestinians have fled Gaza City, piling their few remaining possessions onto pick-up trucks and donkey carts as Israel's deadly bombings and forced displacement campaign intensifies in the area. People fleeing the Israeli military's relentless bombardment have begun setting up makeshift tents amid miserable conditions in an area west of central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, to the south of Gaza City near Deir el-Balah.