WFP Lebanon Country Brief, May 2026

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

In April 2026, WFP assisted a total of 738,000 people across all programmed activities, including 460,000 conflict-affected individuals reached through emergency food and cash assistance.

As needs continue to outpace planning assumptions, WFP requires additional flexible funding to maintain and scale assistance levels and address an emerging May–October funding gap.

Based on WFP’s latest emergency planning assumptions for May–August 2026, WFP requires approximately USD 44 million per month to sustain emergency cash, food and fuel assistance. As of 1 May, the estimated funding gap for the emergency is USD 108 million.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

Despite the ceasefire announcement, hostilities in southern Lebanon remain intense and widespread, with ongoing evacuation orders north and south of the Litani River and continued military activity affecting the South, Bekaa, and southern suburbs of Beirut, resulting in recurrent displacement, civilian casualties, and destruction.

Displacement dynamics remain highly fluid with 121,130 internally displaced persons (IDPs) residing across 642 collective shelters as of end of April. Only 19 percent have left to assess the possibility of returns to their areas of origin, resulting in continued pendular movements and heightened protection risks, while hundreds of thousands remain in host communities, informal shelters or public spaces.

Ongoing conflict continues to erode recent food security gains in Lebanon, pushing conditions toward crisis level, with the latest IPC projections for April–August 2026 indicating that 24 percent of the population are expected to face acute food insecurity.

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