Hezbollah announced on Tuesday (October 13, 2026) an aid programme for Lebanese who lost their homes in the war with Israel , with benefits capped at $14,000 per household, despite the U.S. and Lebanese sanctions on the militant group.
The assistance will go to displaced people whose homes have been destroyed or made uninhabitable, and to residents of areas in the south occupied by Israel, on the condition that beneficiaries do not have a second home, Mr. At a press conference in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Ali Daamouch, announced aid worth $14,000 per household for residents of Beirut and its southern suburbs, and $12,000 for other regions. The two wars against Israel since 2023 have destroyed or damaged more than 2,90,000 homes, according to provisional figures from Lebanese authorities, particularly in the south of the country and in Beirut’s southern suburbs, strongholds of the Shia movement. The total cost of the two wars could exceed $27 billion, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in September, citing World Bank estimates.
Daamouch said. In December 2024, after an earlier war against Israel in support of Hamas in Gaza, it announced similar assistance worth $77 million to the displaced, describing it as a “a gift from the Iranian people and Hezbollah”. He said the state does not have the means to rebuild the southern regions destroyed by the war.
