On March 2, Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets and drones at Israel for the first time in about a year, in response to the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran. Between March 2 and March 16, Israeli attacks have killed at least 886 people – including 67 women, 111 children, and 38 health workers – and wounded 2,141, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. The cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah began a day after Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, and Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza. On March 12, the Israeli army expanded its forced displacement orders for residents of southern Lebanon – from the Litani River to north of the Zahrani River, about 40km (25 miles) north of the Israeli border. The map below shows more than 100 towns and villages across the country that are under forced evacuation orders from the Israeli military. According to Lebanon’s Disaster Risk Management Unit, the total number of registered displaced people has now reached 1,049,328, and the number of displaced people residing in collective shelters is 132,742.