More than 19,000 people had to be displaced within Lebanon due to the spike in attacks between Israel and Hezbollah on the country's southern border, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported this Monday. "An increase in incidents on the border" caused the displacement of 19,646 people in Lebanon, "both in the south and in other parts of the country," the UN agency reported. Following the attack that the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas launched in Israeli territory on October 7, clashes between the Lebanese Hezbollah, which is an ally of Hamas, and the Israeli Army increased in the border area. Residents on both sides of the border line were evacuated, according to reports published by this UN agency since the resurgence of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. On the official IOM website, several reports published throughout October give an account of the number of population displacements that occurred, according to a cadastral survey carried out by this UN agency with data from the Government and representatives of the local community. . According to Israeli authorities, more than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since October 7 and 222 Israelis and foreigners have been kidnapped by Hamas. Israel responded to that attack with a deadly bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip, where more than 5,000 people, mostly civilians, have already died, according to the Health Ministry of Hamas, which governs the Palestinian enclave, which is also located besieged by Israeli forces.