Today, children across the occupied West Bank will be starting the new school year, including nearly 46,000 Palestine Refugee children attending UNRWA schools.
The 2025 mid-year Protection sector dashboard summarizes the progress made by Protection sector partners (including CP and GBV) involved in the Lebanon Response Plan (LRP), identifies key challenges and priorities, and highlights trends aecting people in need.
There are now 11.9 million forcibly displaced due to the outbreak of conflict in Sudan since April 2023, including 7.5 million internally and 4.1 million in neighbouring countries
As-Sweida Governorate is facing a worsening humanitarian crisis following a major escalation in hostilities that began on 13 July 2025, leading to a collapse of essential services, widespread displacement, and the closure of access routes.
UNICEF supported 3,127 Primary Health Care facilities out of 5,214 nationwide, representing 60% of Yemen's facilities, and delivered essential services to 1.5 million women and children, including maternal, newborn, and child health, despite ongoing humanitarian challenges.
Food inflation eased in 2024 and 2025, reaching about 6 percent in July 2025. The year‑on‑year increase in July was driven by higher prices of fresh vegetables, ovine meat and fresh fruits, up 25.3, 19.1 and 15.1 percent, respectively.
UNHCR and the Commission for Refugees (COR) have responded to referrals of 312 individuals who had been in captivity on average between 5 to 9 months. They have all been accommodated in asylum reception centers for further legal screening and needs assessment.
The airstrike on Sana’a that killed Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi marks a historic escalation in the Yemen conflict and in the shadow war between Israel and Iran.
According to a statement by the UN Spokesperson, and the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, civilians remain cut off without access to food and clean water, and public health is deteriorating amid outbreaks of diseases like cholera.
Since early August, torrential rains and violent windstorms have devastated communities across Yemen, destroying homes, sweeping away livelihoods, and displacing thousands of families already living in precarious conditions.
The Lebanon Response Plan 2024-2025 (LRP) is an integrated humanitarian and stabilization response plan co-led by the Government of Lebanon and the United Nations, supported by international and national partners.
Since the start of the conflict, some 149,000 people have sought refuge in neighboring countries, including an estimated 30,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 35,000 in Ethiopia, 60,000 in Sudan, and 24,000 in Uganda.
As of 28 August 2025, 4,8 million are estimated to be living outside IDP sites, while 1,4 million reside in 1,782 IDP sites and camps in Northwest Syria (NWS) and Northeast Syria (NES).
A high-level delegation from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has concluded a visit to Damascus, reaffirming the Organization’s commitment to addressing humanitarian needs and advancing longer-term recovery goals in Syria in line with national priorities.
After 500 days under siege, the city of Al Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur has become an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily, UNICEF warned today.
On 23 August, a group of people, including children and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff were gathered as our teams distributed water in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestine. Gunfire subsequently erupted, injuring people.
