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 fall of the former government on 8 December 2024 until the end of March 2025, some 372,000 Syrian refugees had returned to the country, while other refugees continue to express their intention to return home.
All WFP food stocks are depleted, which forced the closure of all WFP-supported bakeries, and cut off bread access for 800,000 people. Food parcels are fully exhausted, and the last remaining supplies have been delivered to hot meal kitchens, which are expected to run out within days.
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.
From April 6 onward, the Israeli military has demonstrably intensified operations across Gaza's eastern and southern edges, consolidating control over significant swaths of land. A marked increase in airstrikes, artillery fire, and demolitions in specific districts reveals a clear trend toward the systematic expansion of a security buffer zone.
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.
The international community must act urgently to end the conflict which is driving the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Sudan, and provide the funding needed to respond to the escalating humanitarian needs.
In 2024, SARD reached 292,866 individuals across northwest Syria and Türkiye’s Adıyaman Province. This report highlights the collective impact of our teams, partners, and donors over the past year—spanning the sectors of Shelter, Protection, Early Recovery, and more.
Though the security situation has somewhat stabilized in urban areas, rural and suburban areas remain unpredictable, with occasional outbreaks of violence. The threat of escalatory or retaliatory actions continues to loom across the coastal region. In addition to the escalating violence in these areas, clashes and military activity persist in other parts of the country, including southern Syria.
New data by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has revealed that local communities in South Sudan are struggling to effectively integrate people fleeing the devastating war in Sudan – including Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees – two years on.
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.
The International Rescue Committee condemns the killing of two medical staff from our Palestinian partner, Juzoor for Health & Social Development, in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City two days ago. The doctor and nurse were returning from work at an IRC-supported medical point where they were providing essential medical treatment.
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.
As of 3 April 2025, UNHCR estimates that some 372,550 Syrians have crossed back to Syria via neighboring countries since 8 December 2024. This figure is calculated based on a triangulation of data from Syria, Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and beyond.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has provided shelter assistance to nearly 3,400 displaced families and distributed essential household items to 14,000 families across Yemen in 2024, thanks to the generous $7 million USD contribution from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief).
