Over 1.2m people in Lebanon to face acute hunger due to war
A UN-backed report said that more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon were expected to face acute hunger due to Israel's war on Lebanon.
The figure was announced in a joint statement by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Food Programme and Lebanon's agriculture ministry.
Some "1.24 million people – nearly one in four of the population analysed – are expected to face food insecurity" at crisis levels or worse between April and August 2026, they said.
They were referring to analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-backed group that monitors hunger and malnutrition.
This marks a "significant deterioration" from before the war erupted in March, "when an estimated 874,000 people, roughly 17 percent of the population, were experiencing acute food insecurity", the statement said.
"The deterioration is due to conflict, displacement and economic pressures," it added.
Reporting by AFP