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Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, hit southwestern Jamaica on 28 October as a Category 5 system—the worst hurricane to hit the area since 1988—before crossing into eastern Cuba as a Category 3 the following day.

As the extent of the damage becomes clearer, the impact continues to grow in the provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Granma — the two most severely hit by Hurricane Melissa. More than 54,000 people remain evacuated, 7,500 of them in state centers.

• One week after Hurricane Melissa passed through, more than 50 communities in the eastern region remain cut off due to flooding and infrastructure damage, according to Civil Defense reports.

During the night of 16–17 September 2025, heavy rains fell across most communes of the Nord-Ouest department, causing the Trois-Rivières River in Port-de-Paix to overflow suddenly. The floods resulted in extensive inundations across several neighborhoods in Port-de-Paix and Bassin-Bleu.

On 20 August 2025, the Bolivian government declared a national emergency through Supreme Decree No. 5447 in response to the escalating wildfire crisis. Santa Cruz and Beni have been identied as the most affected departments.

مضى عامٌ كاملٌ تقريبًا منذ بدء الحرب على لبنان في ظلّ صمت تامّ من المجتمع الدولي. لكنَّ الأسبوعَيْن الماضيَيْن شهدا زيادةً مروّعة في وتيرة العنف، حيث بلغَ عدد الوفيات حتّى الآن، وفقًا لأحدث أرقام، ٦٩٠ قتيلًا، بينهم ٥٠ طفلًا و٩٤ امرأة، بالإضافة إلى ٢٣١٦ جريحًا، وأكثر من ١١١٧٠٠ نازحًا.

The intensity of the present conflict in Lebanon has already claimed the lives of more children per day than the 2006 conflict.

The past few days saw unprecedented escalation of Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon including the South, southern suburb of Beirut and the Bekaa, with attacks increasing in number and the scope expanding to additional areas across the country, such as Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon. Israeli forces stated that they conducted over 1,500 strikes between September 23-24. The destruction of civilian infrastructure and the level of damage in residential areas has caused massive civilian casualties and displacement.

It’s been almost a year since the war on Lebanon started in absolute silence from the international community. The last two weeks however have witnessed a horrific increase in violence, with so far and according to the latest figures, 690 deaths, including 50 children and 94 women, in addition to 2316 injured, and more than 111,700 individuals displaced.

26 September 2024, Beirut, Lebanon – How does a country reeling from socioeconomic and internal and external political shocks prepare for an acute health emergency? Lebanon may provide an answer.

Last Monday we suspended all our programmes in Lebanon due to the rapid escalation and unpredictability of the conflict in the region.

Since Monday 23 September, nearly 600 people have been killed, including 50 children and 94 women, while nearly 1,700 have been injured by strikes across Lebanon (source: MoPH).

As violence mounts dramatically, CARE calls for an immediate de-escalation and launches a humanitarian response to help affected displaced populations.

BEIRUT, 23 September 2024 – At least 21 children are among an estimated 270 people killed, and more than 1,000 injured in Israeli strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, with all schools now closing and children terrified, said Save the Children.

Islamic Relief strongly condemns today’s deadly attacks on civilians in Lebanon and calls on world leaders to take urgent action to stop further escalation.

Today’s Israeli bombing has caused by far the deadliest day in Lebanon since the crisis began almost a year ago. The death toll is rising rapidly but so far more than 180 people are reported killed and over 700 wounded, including children and many other civilians. Hundreds of Israeli airstrikes have torn through residential areas and families are fleeing the south of the country in terror.

The Israeli military’s announcement for civilians in...

Statement by Jan Egeland, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s secretary general, on Israeli airstrikes on Lebanese villages following days of escalation in southern Lebanon and northern Israel

Reports of a growing number of fatalities and many hundreds injured in devastating aerial bombardments in Lebanon today are a cause for grave concern.

STATEMENT ON THE SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS ACROSS LEBANON AND SYRIA

NEW YORK, 23 September 2024 – “I am deeply alarmed by the ongoing surge of attacks in Lebanon and Israel, which earlier today reportedly claimed the lives of at least 24 children in southern Lebanon. The intensifying violence represents a dangerous escalation for civilians in the area.

UNIFIL expresses grave concern for the safety of civilians in southern Lebanon amidst the most intense Israeli bombing campaign since last October.