Hezbollah announces up to $14,000 in aid for families affected by Lebanon war
Hezbollah outlined payments for eligible families whose main homes were destroyed, left uninhabitable or badly damaged, and for those displaced from Israeli-occupied areas or nearby places.
Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah will offer eligible families as much as $14,000 after their main homes were destroyed or made uninhabitable in this year’s conflict with Israel, Executive Council chairman Ali Damoush announced on Tuesday. The scheme also covers severe damage and displacement from areas under Israeli occupation or neighbouring locations.
Payment amounts and eligibility
Damoush outlined assistance of $14,000 for qualifying households in Beirut and the city’s southern suburbs, allocating $8,000 to furniture and $6,000 to rent. Elsewhere in Lebanon, eligible households will receive $12,000: $8,000 for furniture and $4,000 for rent. Those amounts are unchanged from 2024.
According to Damoush, qualifying cases include destroyed homes, properties judged unsuitable for habitation after technical inspections, and homes with severe damage. Families displaced from Israeli-occupied territory or nearby places are also covered.
Recipients must have lived in the affected property as their main residence and must not own another home. Summer residences and abandoned properties are excluded.
The money will be distributed through four payments across a year. The initial instalment will be $3,500 in Beirut and its southern suburbs, compared with $3,000 in other parts of Lebanon.
Damoush said criteria measuring damage to individual properties would determine both eligibility and the form of assistance.
Iranian funding reported
Reuters reported last week, citing two sources directly familiar with the transfer, that Iran had sent Hezbollah $200 million to support displaced families in Lebanon. The US challenged whether Tehran could provide that financial support.
The two sources told Reuters that Hezbollah received the funds last month, despite stronger US economic pressure on Iran and growing obstacles to transferring money to Tehran’s Lebanese ally.
Displacement and deaths
Hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah’s Shi’ite Muslim constituents were displaced by Israel’s bombing campaign and ground invasion in Lebanon. The group joined the regional conflict to support Iran on March 2, several days after US and Israeli attacks on Iran began.
Lebanon’s health ministry says Israeli attacks have left more than 4,300 people dead. Its figures make no distinction between combatants and civilians.
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