Most of Lebanon's shelters are full, and people fleeing Israeli military strikes are increasingly sleeping out in the open on the street or in public parks, according to UN officials.

"Most of the nearly 900 government-established collective shelters in Lebanon have no more capacity," UNHCR's Rula Amin told a Geneva press briefing on October 4.

She said that they were working with local authorities to find more sites and that, in the meantime, some hotels and even Beirut nightclubs were opening their doors.

Lebanese authorities say over 1.2 million Lebanese have been displaced and nearly 2,000 people killed in Israeli attacks over the last year, most of them within the past two weeks.

"Roads are jammed with traffic, people are sleeping in public parks, on the street, the beach," said Mathieu Luciano, the International Organization for Migration's office head in Lebanon.

He added that many of the current shelters are schools, meaning disruptions to education.

Israel has killed at least 65 people – including at least 28 medics – in strikes across Lebanon in the past 48 hours, according to statements by the Lebanese Health Ministry and the World Health Organization.

All of the healthcare workers killed had been on duty, helping with the wounded in Israeli strikes, WHO’s Lebanon chief, Dr Abdinasir Abubakar, said.

"This is severely limiting the provision of mass trauma management and continuity of health services," he said.

A total of nearly 2,000 people, including 127 children, have been killed and 9,384 injured since the start of Israeli attacks on Lebanon over the last year, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. The WHO also noted that this figure includes 73 healthcare workers.

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