WFP Lebanon Emergency Response: External Situation Report 8 - 14 November 2024

HIGHLIGHTS

• Alongside ongoing programmes, WFP scaled up its emergency response, expanding food assistance to affected people outside shelters, reaching 488,200 people with food and/or cash assistance across shelters and communities, since the escalation of hostilities on 23 September 2024.

• From 8 to 14 November, WFP, leading the Logistics Cluster, facilitated three interagency convoys for seven organisations, delivering vital humanitarian aid to 7,400 affected people in the South and Baalbek. To date, WFP has conducted a total of 12 convoys delivering WFP’s Ready-To-Eat (RTE) rations and bread to 62,200 affected people in hardto-reach areas and shelters.

• With rising needs outpacing available resources, and winter conditions adding further challenges, WFP urgently requires US$ 109 million by the end of the year to sustain emergency operations. This funding is critical to support not only displaced individuals in shelters but also to expand assistance to a growing figure of over 1 million affected people.

SITUATION UPDATE

• Lebanon’s food insecurity is set to worsen amid ongoing hostilities, further straining infrastructure, displacing communities, and deepening the effects of the economic crisis. The disruption of trade and agricultural production forced numerous small businesses to close, leading to rising unemployment potentially impacting up to 1.2 million workers, as per UNDP.

• Israel has intensified its military operations, further straining Lebanon’s fragile situation, resulting in 3,400 deaths, including more than 200 children, and 14,400 injuries since October 2023, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

• Since 23 September, the Israeli forces have issued displacement orders for more than 160 villages and over 150 buildings in conflict-affected regions of Lebanon. People are forced to flee their homes, impacting almost 1.5 million people, out of whom 881,400 are classified as internally displaced persons (IDPs), as of 13 November (as per IOM).

• Israeli strikes near Lebanon's eastern border with Syria have closed almost all official border crossings between the two countries, limiting people fleeing to Syria to one operational route, in North Lebanon. As per the Lebanese General Security, 585,300 people have crossed into Syria since 23 September (65 percent Syrians and 35 percent Lebanese). Additionally, almost 35,000 Lebanese arrived in Iraq between 27 September and 13 November 2024, according to UNHCR.

• To date, 188,000 IDPs are in 1,167 shelters, of which 84 percent have reached maximum capacity. Other IDPs are either with their families or have crossed to Syria and Iraq. However, many, especially nonLebanese, face significant barriers to securing shelter and urgently need adequate accommodation and essential items to stay warm and safe as winter approaches.

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