Gaza Strip With the beginning of the month of November, and the ceasefire entering its fifth week, there was an improvement in the prices of basic food commodities across all governorates in the Gaza Strip, with decreases in the prices of vegetables.
The Government of Lebanon is an important partner of WFP in the implementation of its CSP. In particular, the evaluation will seek to engage with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Economy and Trade, and the Ministry of Energy and Water, National Disaster Risk Management Unit, as well as relevant municipalities.
2025 has brought unprecedented challenges to Yemen. Drastic funding cuts have forced aid agencies to scale back many life-saving programmes. Seasonal floods have once again devastated communities, sweeping away people’s homes and belongings.
This report is produced by Inter-sector Coordination Group in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It covers the period from 15 October – 15 November. These reports are issued on monthly basis with the next report scheduled to be published around 15 December.
Escalating conflict, displacement, access constraints, economic instability, climate shocks, and disease outbreaks continued to worsen the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan throughout October.
UNRWA has expanded by 40 per cent its provision of domestic water supply in Gaza City and the northern area, thanks to the rehabilitation of water well no. 3 in Jabalia (repaired on 5 November). The restored well now enables the Agency to provide clean water to an additional 20,000 residents, including returnees in the north.
Over a month into the ceasefire, WFP delivered more than 30,000 mt of food in Gaza and rapidly scaled up operations. However, during the reporting period, shortages of some commodities due to access constraints, including de-prioritization of humanitarian cargo at crossings, customs clearance delays, corridor suspensions, and the continued lack of access to northern crossings, led to temporary suspensions at several distribution sites, resulting in roughly 20 percent reduction in volumes.
• South Sudan is facing overlapping crises, including violence, protracted economic decline and climate shocks, which continue to fuel food insecurity and malnutrition.
Syria stands at a pivotal juncture offering new opportunities but facing enduring challenges. While normalization and sanctions relief are underway, more than a decade of conflict has left public systems deeply weakened, demanding sustained international engagement to rebuild institutional and human capacity.
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.
A protection catastrophe in Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions is intensifying at an alarming pace as escalating violence drives thousands of families from their homes, many for the second or third time, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns.
The fragile Gaza ceasefire announced on 9 October 2025 marked a momentous but precarious juncture in the ongoing conflict. The ceasefire remains in place but is fragile, and violations from both sides continue.
The humanitarian situation in southern Syria remains unpredictable, with insecurity, displacement, and service disruptions continuing to affect communities across As-Sweida, Dar’a, and Quneitra governorates during the reporting period.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General Amy Pope warns that extreme insecurity and appalling human rights violations, including mass killings and ethnic and sexual violence in El Fasher, North Darfur, have triggered a dramatic surge in displacement and further worsened the humanitarian crisis.
Supported business-to-business linkages with 40 cooperatives through 15 promotional campaigns; and established a brand and two farmers’ markets, run by the Palestinian Agricultural Cooperatives Union (PACU), where the cooperatives can sell their items directly to West Bank consumers.
Displacement from Al Fasher city and its surroundings continues, with a total of 89,0002 people displaced to date. Between 5 to 8 November 2025 alone, an estimated 7,000 people fled from Al Fasher city to locations including Tawila, Melit, and Saraf Omra in North Darfur.
Since the 10 October ceasefire, WFP has scaled up operations, reaching over one million people - out of the 1.6 million targeted - with food distributions, hot meals, bakery support, fortified snacks for children, expanded nutrition services, and digital cash assistance.
People in northeast Syria continue to struggle with access to healthcare, water, and food, according to an assessment conducted earlier this year in Al-Hasakah governorate by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF staff spoke with more than 150 families from both local communities and internally displaced persons.
The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) update for South Sudan reveals a critical situation: over half of the country’s population is projected to experience crisis or worse levels of hunger (IPC Phase 3 and above) between April and July 2026.
The latest analysis of food insecurity and malnutrition in Sudan shows stark contrasts along conflict lines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned today.
