Hostilities continued despite the ceasefire extension announcement, with continued airstrikes and displacement orders affecting at least 14 new localities.
Despite the ceasefire, attacks on healthcare continue. Since the last reporting period, five incidents have been recorded, resulting in two deaths and ten injuries among healthcare workers.
Six months on from the announcement of the ceasefire in Gaza, Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is being forgotten as the world’s attention shifts elsewhere in the Middle East, despite conditions within Gaza deteriorating at an alarming pace.
Since the onset of hostilities on 2 March, a total of 155 attacks on health care have resulted in 104 deaths and 244 injuries among health-care workers.
Between 1 February and 31 March 2026, the Ministry of Health (MoH) reported 494 Palestinians killed and at least 489 injured in the Gaza Strip, underscoring the fragility of the ceasefire in place since 10 October 2025.
As of 31 December, over 1.3 million Syrians have returned back home since December 2024, with more than 3.7 million registered Syrian refugees continuing to reside in host countries in the region.
The war in Lebanon, now under a fragile 10-day ceasefire, has had a devastating impact on Lebanon’s healthcare system and staff. Bombings by Israeli forces killed and injured people, while attacks on first responders and in the vicinity of hospitals put healthcare workers at risk, leaving many wounded and killed.
Hostilities across Lebanon continued during the reporting period, following the large‑scale airstrikes of 8 April and amid ongoing military operations in southern Lebanon, parts of the Bekaa and Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Continued attacks on healthcare were reported during and following the deadliest day of the ongoing conflict on 8 April 2026, constituting a blatant violation of International Humanitarian Law and a clear breach of UN Security Council Resolution 2286, which mandates the protection of health personnel and facilities.
As the Syrian Arab Republic (hereafter referred to as Syria) enters a new year, the impact of the shift in power over a year ago (8 December 2024) continues to shape the country.
The hostilities which have been ongoing for close to one-month have already claimed the lives of 1,238 people in Lebanon, including most recently rescue workers, journalists and a UN peacekeeper.
Over the past week, hostilities intensified with continued strikes on civilian infrastructure, including the destruction of key bridges and transport roads in southern Lebanon, significantly restricting movement and humanitarian access.
The cost of living continues to outpace income growth; despite policy measures seeking to enhance purchasing power, current wage levels meet only around one‑third of basic household needs.
Geographical expansion and intensification of hostilities across Lebanon continue to deteriorate the humanitarian situation exposing growing number of people to persistent insecurity.
The UN estimates that in 2026, 16.5 million people across Syria need humanitarian assistance. Since the political transition in December 2024 until the end of January 2026, over 1.3 million Syrians have returned home from countries of asylum.
The protection environment in the Darfur and Kordofan States is precarious with armed clashes, air and drone strikes, and heightened insecurity persisting.
WFP is outraged by recent attacks on its trucks, assets and facilities in Sudan. Four incidents over the past 10 days have resulted in humanitarians killed or injured while delivering life-saving food assistance to the most vulnerable civilians.
Following the opening of new prospects for voluntary returns to Syria at the end of 2024, the General Security Office (GSO) waived administrative fines and the re-entry ban for refugees returning to Syria as of 1 July 2025, and UNHCR launched its facilitated Voluntary Return (VolRep) programme.
After more than a decade of displacement, around 3 million displaced Syrians inside and outside the country were able to return home. In 2025 alone, around 179,000 people returned to Syria from Jordan and around 500,000 from Lebanon.
Since 6 January, clashes in Aleppo Governorate have continued between government forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). As of 10 January, the Aleppo Health Directorate reported a total of 23 deaths and 104 injuries.
