Overview
- UNHCR says its $69 million appeal for the region has brought in less than 10% and the agency is urging donors to fill the gap.
- Since the Feb. 28 U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, Tehran has retaliated and fighting has spread to Lebanon, driving about 3.2 million people from their homes inside Iran and more than 1 million inside Lebanon.
- Attacks and closures around the Strait of Hormuz have choked aid flows, slowing shipments from the UAE logistics hub and delaying temperature‑sensitive medical supplies, including an International Rescue Committee consignment stuck in Dubai.
- The U.S. State Department says it will provide more than $40 million in extra emergency aid to Lebanon and set up 12 regional response hubs, yet UN agencies say current pledges still leave a wide shortfall.
- After the U.S. dissolved USAID and other donors cut budgets, aid groups shrank staff and programs, and the World Food Program warns up to 45 million more people could face acute hunger if the war continues with oil above $100 a barrel.