‘No place to go’: As Israel bombs Lebanon, migrant workers feel abandoned

Israel's bombing of Lebanon has resulted in the displacement of at least 200,000 foreign workers.
That's according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration.
Most of these workers are women and have been abandoned by their employers.

Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari reports from Beirut.

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[BillMice]

Ban the Kafala system

Its stupid that people give up their passports

[iseedeadpeople]

These people were being treated as slaves. That seems like a much bigger problem than them losing their jobs right now. Ban kafala. Ban modern day slavery.

[SammyMaina-rubl]

Lebanon double standards, why abandon employees? their lives don't matter??

[Sininho]

So a country with 90% of the country living below the poverty line has people wealthy enough for domestic help? Interesting…

[rajasekhare]

Kafalla system in apartheid countries should be blamed for crimes against foreign workers.

[mirandaal]

So heartless to flee with everyone else in your household and to abandon a fellow human being who works for your household. The inhumanity is underscored by your leaving with her passport, which you had unfairly confiscated!

[omery.]

It’s 2024 but Lebanon still has slavery rules 😑🤢

[coleengoodell]

Workers? Sounds like modern slavery to have your documents and passports taken by your employer and your movements monitored or controlled by them as well. I say human trafficking. And to abandon them? What the one worker talked about it seems there is racial prejudice in Lebanon as well. I suppose they don't see many people of beautiful color that is darker or different than their own.
This is probably the most freedom and rest these workers have had since they came to Lebanon. From what I've heard, domestic workers for wealthy people across the globe and in Arab nations are not treated well at all. I pray they will remain safe until they can, if they want, return to work or to return to their homes.

[adriankoh]

N they say "izlam is not racist" 😂

[DoIt-el]

These people are treated very badly by the lebanese.
They are very oppressed and look at their faces.
After the war started these people were thrown out by their employers.
Where is the united nations now.?
Where are the human rights organizations?Where is that lebanese prime-minister?
He surely talks a lot for a prime-minister of a terror nation.
Shame on you. These people are starving and far away from home. Shame on you lebanon.

[LEODochartaigh]

God Bless the innocent people of this conflict. Please let there be peace.

[brusckotatalonghari]

Al Jazeera show this news and never show the video footage of Sinwar wife with the luxury bag that hiding the tunnel and not even qiestioning 😅😂

[bwt]

Our beloved africa is rich but we are suffering because this corrupt and weak politicians.

[tf]

Lebanon cries racism and calls themselves the victims then victimatizes others....

[jule-zyfx]

sending love and safety to Black and Asian adults and children

[SajidKhan-jgbk]

Prayers for Lebanon 🇱🇧!❤❤❤🤲🤲🤲😭😭😭😢😢😢💔💔💔

[mpbee]

people are homeless because a few decided to create chaos.

[م-مو]

I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who broughtOh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 6 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number+967،735867642 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with

[AhJodie]

The system they are under has been around for a while and is not good. I am quite surprised, but NGOs have been trying to change the laws so the workers can be treated better. The person the nanny's work for is responsible for the workers it is ridiculous to leave them though with nothing. I need to research more to understand it all.

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

The sad news is that they got bad employers to begin with, but not all employers are like that.