This report is produced by OCHA Lebanon in collaboration with humanitarian partners and the Inter Sector Coordination Group. It covers the period from 6 – 12 December 2024.
On 26 November, another UNFPA-supported safe space was destroyed in Sour, South Lebanon. The facility provided services to hundreds of women and girls, including survivors of GBV. Two UNFPA-supported primary health care centres (PHCCs) and ve WGSSs are no longer operational across the country.
Insecurity Insight identified 305 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Lebanon between 08 October 2023 and 18 November 2024. In these incidents, at least 241 health workers were killed, 200 injured and health facilities damaged 158 times. All of these reported 305 incidents were attributed to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
The SARI Global report analyses the escalating conflict in southern Lebanon, focusing on patterns derived from data on evacuation orders and Israeli Armed Forces (IAF) attacks.
UNIFIL is seriously concerned by numerous strikes on the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) inside the Lebanese territories, despite their declared non-involvement in the ongoing hostilities between Hizbullah and Israel.
Since 7 October 2023, 47% of attacks on health care – 65 out of 137 – have proven fatal to at least one health worker or patient in Lebanon, as of 21 November 2024.
Since 7 October 2023, 47% of attacks on health care – 65 out of 137 – have proven fatal to at least one health worker or patient in Lebanon, as of 21 November 2024.
Since 2019, Lebanon has been grappling with an unprecedented multi-layered political, economic, financial and public health crisis that undermines the subsistence capacity of already vulnerable populations. Individuals and families have fallen deeper into poverty due to currency depreciation, high inflation, rising food prices and loss of income.
The conflict in Lebanon has led to growing displacement, a rise in civilian casualties, and significant damage to infrastructure. This reporting period saw an alarming increase in the number of children killed and intensified attacks on densely populated areas, particularly in Beirut’s southern suburbs during the past days.
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, more than 3,200 individuals, including 200 children, have been killed, and over 14,000 injured, by Israeli airstrikes since October 2023.
In addition to attacks on areas sheltering civilians, airstrikes on health facilities and workers continue to be recorded by WHO, interrupting operations in 127 health facilities and eight hospitals, and reducing the functionality of nine hospitals.
Insecurity Insight identified 194 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Lebanon between 08 October 2023 and 27 October 2024. In these incidents, health facilities were damaged or destroyed on 75 occasions.
The use of explosive weapons in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Lebanon was so frequent that it was difficult in many cases to attribute civilian casualties to specific incidents of use, as required by the methodology for this data collection.
Israeli airstrikes left at least 52 people dead and 161 injured in a 24-hour period on 6-7 November, bringing the total death toll to 3,103 dead and 13,856 injured since October 2023, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.
UNRWA is working with a range of partner organisations (community based, local NGOs and international NGOs) in all its emergency shelters to provide a full range of services, including hot meals and psychosocial support activities.
The humanitarian situation in Lebanon has reached levels that exceed the severity of the 2006 war, with ongoing hostilities resulting in a toll of 2,867 deaths (including 178 children and 560 women killed) and over 13,000 injuries since 8 October 2023, according to national authorities.
The crisis in Lebanon has escalated sharply, with ongoing hostilities resulting in severe casualties, extensive displacement, and a mounting humanitarian toll.
Displaced people in Saida, southern Lebanon, describe their journeys in search of safety and the medical challenges they face under an overstretched health system.
