The Solomon Islands Red Cross says about 800 homeless people from the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal are now being cared for in a village near Honiara.
They have fled the Coast where there are unconfirmed reports that the rebel leader Harold Keke is holding hundreds of other villagers as human shields.
The Red Cross secretary general Agnes Wale says the displaced people have been given temporary shelter and ground for gardens near a village where others from the Coast have established permanent homes.
She says they have registered 155 families, or a total of 713 people, but more are on the way.
"From what we get from the people who have actually arrived here is that there will be more people coming and they are still coming on their way, some have arrived last night and we are still to register them because that is what we do. We register the families and then give them temporary shelter plus family kits and we are fortunate that the International Committee of the Red Cross is assisting us with these things."
