“I had prepared myself physically and mentally for that doctor, for her to be the one delivering,” Houmani said. They are among over a million people who have been displaced in Lebanon since a new war between Israel and Hezbollah erupted on March 2. There are 13,500 displaced pregnant women in Lebanon, according to the UN Population Fund UNFPA, the world body's reproductive health agency. Midwife Ahlam Sayegh, who also fled Nabatieh, supports displaced pregnant women and new mothers in Beirut as best she can with limited means. “We are giving support, but at the same time most of that support is mainly psychological support - support by telling them what they should do, when the necessities required to put that into practice on the ground are not reaching them,” she said.

Source: The Telegraph March 28, 2026 08:00 UTC