Displaced people on Mount Lebanon, near Beirut – The fighting in Lebanon in the summer of 2006 wrought destruction on a massive scale, killing hundreds of civilians, injuring thousands and displacing almost a million people. In Beirut, public schools and parks were quickly filled to capacity from the onset of hostilities, with civilians fleeing the suburbs in the south of the city, followed by a steady exodus from towns and villages in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese Red Cross supplied them with bare necessities such as food, sleeping mats and hygiene kits provided by the ICRC. The ICRC continues today to provide hundreds of displaced families with food, baby and hygiene kits, kitchen sets and blankets.