Since October 2023, escalating hostilities across Lebanon have resulted in over 3,100 deaths and more than 13,800 people have been injured. Of the people in need, an estimated 13,900 are pregnant women.

On 20 October 2024, an airstrike destroyed a UNFPA-supported safe space for women and girls in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The facility provided services to, on average, 300 women every month, including survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). Due to the security situation, six UNFPA-supported primary health care centers and five women and girls’ safe spaces are no longer operational in different parts of the country.

However, UNFPA continues to deliver sexual and reproductive health, and GBV mitigation and response services to affected populations through 14 mobile medical units, support to 20 primary health-care facilities and 14 women and girls’ safe spaces, in close coordination with the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Social Affairs and local partners.

By the end of October, UNFPA had deployed a network of 240 midwives to provide maternal health and family planning services to pregnant women and new mothers across Lebanon. UNFPA also deployed 35 social workers across the country to support internally displaced people in 84 shelters.

UNFPA has reached 3,290 people with GBV prevention, mitigation and response activities; reached 3,046 people with sexual and reproductive services; and distributed 3,627 dignity kits to displaced women and girls.

UNFPA’s financial requirements until the end of 2024 amount to US$ 8.6 million for sexual and reproductive health programmes and GBV intervention. As of the end of October, only 2.7 million USD (31%) has been received.