This gender analysis examines the differentiated impacts of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Lebanon on women, men, girls, and boys, with a specific emphasis on education, child protection, and access barriers across key sectors including WASH, education, nutrition, shelter, and livelihoods.
According to the Site Management Cluster (SMC), more than 664,800 Palestinians in Gaza were displaced between 18 March and 11 June. With no safe place to go, many people have sought refuge in every available space, including overcrowded displacement sites, makeshift shelters, damaged buildings, streets and open areas.
The Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis and the Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria launched the Syria Cross-border Humanitarian Fund – Syria Humanitarian Fund - 2025 First Standard Allocation Strategy titled “Catalyzing humanitarian action: addressing critical needs of IDPs, supporting returns, and building resilience for the most vulnerable populations in Syria”.
Seven weeks on, the impacts of the 28 March earthquakes in central Myanmar continue to drive significant humanitarian needs, both for immediate relief and early recovery.
As of 15 May 2025, UNHCR estimates that over half a million – 501,126 – Syrians have crossed back to Syria via neighboring countries since 8 December 2024. This brings up the total of 861,966 Syrian individuals that have returned to Syria since the beginning of 2024.
As of 8 May 2025, UNHCR estimates that some 481,730 Syrians have crossed back to Syria via neighboring countries since 8 December 2024. This brings up the total of over 842,570 Syrian individuals that have returned to Syria since the beginning of 2024.
OCHA access teams continue to work on strengthening joint analysis and advocacy for improved humanitarian access in northeast Syria. Building on the January access snapshots for Al-Hasakeh, Ar-Raqqa, and Deir-ez-Zor, partners aim to produce updated monthly snapshots and register incidents through OCHA’s new Access Monitoring and Reporting Framework.
Since 18 March 2025, Israeli forces have escalated bombardment from the air, land and sea across the Gaza Strip and expanded ground operations. This has resulted in hundreds of casualties, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and large-scale displacement.
Along with the catastrophic impact of the conflict and the refugee’s influx, Lebanon continues to face a multi-layered crisis characterized by deep-rooted vulnerabilities and acute humanitarian needs. The crisis is driven by a combination of factors, including financial and socio-economic downturn and political deadlock.
Since October 8 there has been an increase in cross-border incidents between Israel and Lebanon, resulting in the displacement of people both within the South and elsewhere within the country.
On 25 April 2025, a fire in Hamouda and Eiyal Amin villages of At Tawisha locality, North Darfur reportedly destroyed 90 houses. Field teams reported that all households were displaced to other locations within At Tawisha locality.
Since the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza on the night between 17 and 18 March 2025, intense military activities and hostilities have continued to escalate, resulting in hundreds of civilians killed and injured, further damage and destruction to civilian infrastructure, and new waves of forced displacement.
On 14 April 2025, DTM field teams reported that 146 households were displaced from Abulujam, Manjura Tat, and Manjura villages in Jebel Moon locality, following an attack by a group of Arab tribesmen.
Thousands of families have arrived injured, traumatised and with no food or water in the town of Tawila after journeys of up to 70km (40 miles) on foot to flee attacks in Sudan’s Zamzam and Al Shouk camps, Save the Children said.
Since the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza on the night between 17 and 18 March, intense military activities and hostilities have continued, killing and injuring hundreds of people and further damaging and destroying what remains of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.
Humanitarian operations have been stifled by a combination of expanded military activity, the Israeli government’s blockade on the entry of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies for more than a month, killing of aid workers and attacks on their premises, and severe movement restrictions within Gaza.
With a demographic composition of 17.7 million residents, 6.7 million IDPs, 1.2 million IDP returnees, and nearly 700,000 arrivals from abroad across Syria's 14 governorates, mobility patterns continue to significantly shape the country's population landscape.
Since the Israeli Forces launched operation "Iron Wall" in January 2025 in the northern West Bank, and the subsequent displacement of over 45,000 people from Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams refugee camps, more than 8,100 Palestinian families there are facing a harsh reality, one that is unprecedented since 1967.
The hostilities in the Tartous, Lattakia, Homs, and Hama Governorates of Syria in early March continue to displace people into the North and Akkar Governorates of north Lebanon reaching now nearly 30,000 people with further arrivals expected.
