IOM Yemen DTM's Rapid Displacement Tracking (RDT) tool collects data on estimated numbers of households forced to flee on a daily basis from their locations of origin or displacement, allowing for regular reporting of new displacements in terms of estimated numbers, geography, and needs.
Along with the catastrophic impact of the conflict and the refugee’s influx, Lebanon continues to face a multi-layered crisis characterized by deep-rooted vulnerabilities and acute humanitarian needs. The crisis is driven by a combination of factors, including financial and socio-economic downturn and political deadlock.
Between 1 and 3 May 2025, DTM field teams estimated that 257 households were displaced from Abu Shouk IDP camp and Al Fasher town due to heightened insecurity.
Israel’s reported plan to distribute humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is nothing more than a new manoeuvre aimed at prolonging the comprehensive and illegal blockade imposed on the territory. This move reintroduces starvation, only under a humanitarian façade this time,legitimising its continued use as a weapon within the context of an ongoing genocide that has lasted more than 19 months.
Since October 8 there has been an increase in cross-border incidents between Israel and Lebanon, resulting in the displacement of people both within the South and elsewhere within the country.
Almost 100 days into the Israeli operation in the northern West Bank, about 40,000 Palestinians remain displaced. As this situation risks becoming permanent, the UN Human Rights Office warns it may amount to forcible transfer.
Violence swiftly spread across Jaramana governorate, with individual attacks against Druze civilians recorded in various other localities in Damascus and Rural Damascus. On the morning of April 29, Jaraman was placed under a lockdown as more pro-government continued to arrive into the area.
The sharp escalation in Israel’s targeting of civilians in the Gaza Strip is deeply alarming. Entire families, including women and children, are being killed at horrific rates, as the international community fails to stop the nearly 19-month-long genocide.
Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, the third airstrike on the capital just this month, is yet another reminder that the ceasefire has not brought a lasting peace for people in Lebanon, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned.
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.
DTM Sudan field teams have recorded a significant increase in cross-border movement from Egypt to Sudan. The total number of returnees has increased by 44 per cent in only three weeks, from 114,457 individuals reported in Return Monitoring Alert (1) to an estimated 165,330 individuals.
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.
The National Council for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Lebanon (NCEILebanon) hosted a landmark seminar, on AI for a National Strategy in Lebanon, as an introduction to NCEILebanon AI Initiative
The event brought together government officials, academic leaders, and industry experts to lay the groundwork for Lebanon’s comprehensive national AI strategy.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is deeply concerned by reports of clashes between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces and Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in Opposition in Morobo and Yei counties, Central Equatoria State, which have led to civilian displacement and casualties.
In 2024, UNHCR supported 31 community centers, including 20 Community Development Centers (CDCs) and 11 Social Development Centers (SDCs), across Lebanon. Through community centers, women, men, boys and girls of diverse backgrounds can access protection, social, legal, learning, and other services and activities.
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.
WFP reached 4 million people in March, the highest number since the start of the conflict. Of this, 1.6 million people were in Famine and Risk of Famine areas, another record high number of people reached since the conflict started in April 2023.
At least 110,000* severely acutely malnourished children supported by Save the Children in 10 countries could be left without access to life-saving ready-to-use emergency food and nutrition programmes as aid cuts hit supplies in coming months, according to a Save the Children analysis.
Two unlawful Israeli strikes on the northeastern Lebanese town of Younine between September and November 2024, which killed 33 civilians, 15 of them children, were apparent indiscriminate attacks on civilians, Human Rights Watch said today.
