News Monitor
Grandi visited the border crossing at Jdeidet Yabous. He met Lebanese refugees and Syrians who just crossed and described how they escaped intense Israeli bombardments that terrified their children.
Numbers are expected to swell after new relocation orders issued by Israeli forces, demanding residents in more than two dozen villages in the south of Lebanon relocate north of the Awali River.
Lebanon crisis: UN launches $426 million aid appeal with ‘limited’ Israeli ground incursion underway
In just the past two weeks, more than 1,000 people have died, 6,000 have been injured and about one million people have been directly affected or displaced since October 2023, according to authorities.
WFP urgently requires $105 million until the end of the year and calls on the international community to mobilise resources and support the humanitarian response.
The average number of children killed per day in Lebanon this week is more than double the number of children killed per day during the country’s devastating 2006 conflict.
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health says nearly 600 people have been killed, including 50 children, and 1,700 injured. IOM DG Amy Pope reiterated a call for diplomacy, peace and de-escalation.
UNHCR and partners, including the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, are at the border crossings, providing food, water, blankets and mattresses to those arriving, and guiding them towards support in Syria.
The conflict in the South of Lebanon has exacerbated the multiple crises that have disrupted the education of the most marginalized children and youth in the country.
Around 1.26 million people (23 percent of the analysed population) are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April and September 2024, according to IPC.
Poverty in Lebanon has more than tripled over the past decade, reaching 44 per cent of the total population, according to a new World Bank report released today.