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Situation Overview
- Since October 2023, escalating hostilities across Lebanon have resulted in over 3,100 deaths (20% women); more than 13,800 people have been injured. More than 2,000 people have been killed and almost 11,000 injured since September 2024.
- On 20 October 2024, an airstrike destroyed a UNFPA-supported safe space for women and girls in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The facility provided services to, on average, 300 women every month, including survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). Due to the security situation, six UNFPA-supported primary health care centers (PHCCs) and five women and girls’ safe spaces are no longer operational in different parts of the country.
- Continuous airstrikes across Lebanon have led to the destruction of critical infrastructure, including health care. As of 31 October, 108 health practitioners had been killed on duty and 60 health centers attacked. Around 100 PHCCs and dispensaries, as well as eight hospitals, have closed across the country. On 30 and 31 October, consecutive forced displacement orders for the entire city of Baalbek (Bekaa) drove new waves of displacement towards Zahle (Bekaa) and Akkar (North Lebanon). Similar orders were issued for Nabatieh, Tyre, Beirut, and, for the first time, the Palestinian ‘Rashidieh’ refugee camp in South Lebanon. Shortly after the orders, airstrikes targeted these locations.
- As of 10 November, IOM reported that 875,180 people had been displaced within Lebanon (52% women), with 190,212 people registered in 1,019 collective shelters – 86% are at full capacity. Around 49% of internally displaced people are living in the community, 27% in rental housing and 1% in unfinished buildings, tents, public parks, and on the streets, as harsh winter weather conditions prevail. The unprecedented wave of displacement has further strained health care, waste management and shelter services, impacting host communities.
- As of 30 October, an estimated 469,000 people (29% Lebanese and 71% Syrian) have crossed into Syria, and almost 25,500 Lebanese nationals have arrived in Iraq, according to UNHCR.
- During UNFPA and inter-agency field visits to shelters in Tyr, Saida, Beirut, and Mount Lebanon, pregnant women and new mothers shared their concerns about hygiene conditions in shelters and fears for their newborns. As winter arrives, dropping temperatures are increasing their anxieties due to the absence of hot showers, winter clothing and basic items for newborns. Privacy and comfort for breastfeeding is another concern for new mothers. Protection concerns for women and girls have also increased due to poor living conditions in crowded shelters, a lack of lighting/electricity and the limited number of toilets segregated by gender. Adolescent girls and women report they are struggling to manage their menstruation due to shortages of water and limited access to bathrooms.