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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a new report Wednesday finding that more than one in five households surveyed in Lebanon said their children went to bed hungry in the two weeks before July 2026 interviews. The report, An Enduring Nightmare, documents the toll on children’s access to food, healthcare, and education in an active conflict zone, drawing on a telephone survey of 3,016 respondents nationwide.
The UN human rights office warned in March that Israeli airstrikes destroying homes and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon raised serious concerns under international humanitarian law, and that deliberately attacking civilians or civilian objects constitutes a war crime. UNICEF’s report separately found 135 health care workers killed and 416 injured while on duty since March 2, and 17 hospitals damaged.
The survey found that 82 percent of households reported greater difficulty in affording basic necessities compared to three months earlier. Nearly one in three, 31 percent, said children went without needed health care mainly because they could not afford it, and 14 percent reported at least one child working, more than twice the 6 percent recorded in a January 2025 survey.
Citing Lebanese health ministry figures through September 7, the report recorded at least 261 children killed and 1,056 injured since March 2, an average of seven children killed or injured a day, and noted that 436 schools have been damaged or destroyed, putting roughly 100,000 children at risk of losing their classrooms. Israeli airstrikes drew UN condemnation in April. Violence has since eased under an April ceasefire, but airstrikes and demolitions continue in southern Lebanon, where Israel still occupies a strip of territory.
In April 2026, Save the Children warned that over 380,000 children in Lebanon were on the brink of crisis-level food insecurity, stating that conditions have significantly declined since the escalation of violence in March. The World Hunger Education Service pointed out that in the era prior to the conflict, Lebanese children were found to be 36% anaemic from a lack of necessary dietary nutrients, stating that a spike in food prices, alongside a reduction in funding for aid has only exacerbated this latest hunger wave in the country.
UNICEF said it is seeking $388.5 million in 2026 to reach 2 million people in Lebanon, including 700,000 children, an appeal that was 54 percent funded as of July 31. “Without urgent and sustained action, an entire generation of children and young people risks carrying the scars of this crisis into adulthood,” said UNICEF Lebanon Representative Marcoluigi Corsi.
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The UN human rights office warned in March that Israeli airstrikes destroying homes and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon raised serious concerns under international humanitarian law, and that deliberately attacking civilians or civilian objects constitutes a war crime. UNICEF’s report separately found 135 health care workers killed and 416 injured while on duty since March 2, and 17 hospitals damaged.
The survey found that 82 percent of households reported greater difficulty in affording basic necessities compared to three months earlier. Nearly one in three, 31 percent, said children went without needed health care mainly because they could not afford it, and 14 percent reported at least one child working, more than twice the 6 percent recorded in a January 2025 survey.
Citing Lebanese health ministry figures through September 7, the report recorded at least 261 children killed and 1,056 injured since March 2, an average of seven children killed or injured a day, and noted that 436 schools have been damaged or destroyed, putting roughly 100,000 children at risk of losing their classrooms. Israeli airstrikes drew UN condemnation in April. Violence has since eased under an April ceasefire, but airstrikes and demolitions continue in southern Lebanon, where Israel still occupies a strip of territory.
In April 2026, Save the Children warned that over 380,000 children in Lebanon were on the brink of crisis-level food insecurity, stating that conditions have significantly declined since the escalation of violence in March. The World Hunger Education Service pointed out that in the era prior to the conflict, Lebanese children were found to be 36% anaemic from a lack of necessary dietary nutrients, stating that a spike in food prices, alongside a reduction in funding for aid has only exacerbated this latest hunger wave in the country.
UNICEF said it is seeking $388.5 million in 2026 to reach 2 million people in Lebanon, including 700,000 children, an appeal that was 54 percent funded as of July 31. “Without urgent and sustained action, an entire generation of children and young people risks carrying the scars of this crisis into adulthood,” said UNICEF Lebanon Representative Marcoluigi Corsi.
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