{"id":18329,"date":"2026-03-13T21:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/18329\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:18:12","slug":"un-seeks-308-million-for-lebanon-as-war-displaces-800000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/18329\/","title":{"rendered":"UN seeks $308 million for Lebanon as war displaces 800,000 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Solidarity in words must be matched by solidarity in action,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said as he announced the campaign from Beirut.<\/p>\n

The United Nations launched a $308 million flash appeal on Friday to help Lebanon<\/a> cope with the fallout of a war that has forced more than a seventh of its population from their homes.<\/p>\n

“Solidarity in words must be matched by solidarity in action,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said as he announced the campaign from Beirut.<\/p>\n

Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel<\/a> on March 2, claiming it was attempting to avenge the killing of Iran’s supreme leader. In retaliation, Israel began targeting Hezbollah<\/a> in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah has kept up daily rocket and drone attacks against Israeli territory and civilian areas<\/a>, while Israel has expanded its ground operations and air strikes, bombing terror infrastructure in the capital on Thursday, along with other parts of the country on Friday.<\/p>\n

More than 800,000 Lebanese citizens have been displaced due to evacuation warnings released by Israel prior to strikes on Lebanese areas where civilians may be present.<\/p>\n

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A burst of burning debris erupts following reported Israeli strikes in Beirut, after an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, Lebanon, March 13, 2026. (credit: REUTERS\/AMR ABDALLAH DALSH)<\/p>\n

But aid organizations say funding constraints have already forced them to ration supplies and that substantial new contributions are essential.<\/p>\n

“We’re only targeting those who are really on the verge of starvation or in starvation,” said Carl Skau, the World Food Programme’s deputy executive director.<\/p>\n

“There isn’t any more margin, so with needs going up, resources will have to come up – and they can certainly not drop,” Skau told Reuters.<\/p>\n

‘Tight funding landscape’<\/p>\n

Humanitarian organizations say global crises have restricted their response in Lebanon, a country already hit hard by a 2019 economic collapse, the 2020 Beirut port explosion, and the 2024 war between Hezbollah and Israel.<\/p>\n

Skau said the WFP fears donor governments will face new budget constraints following the spike in global energy prices triggered by the Iran war.<\/p>\n

The UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, last September said it had only received 25% of the resources required for Lebanon in 2025, forcing it to slash cash assistance programs.<\/p>\n

“The current spike or the current escalation of hostilities compounds an already tight funding landscape,” said Kirollos Fares, Lebanon country director at humanitarian organization Medair.<\/p>\n

Aid group Solidarit\u00e9s International had already seen a drop in both the number and size of grants, said Lebanon country director Daniele Regazzi.<\/p>\n

\u201c…Unless fresh money comes out, what we are deploying now as emergency response…will be gone in the next roughly couple of weeks,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Solidarity in words must be matched by solidarity in action,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said as he announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9101,847,100,34,37,93,3570],"class_list":{"0":"post-18329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-antonio-guterres","9":"tag-beirut","10":"tag-hezbollah","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-lebanon","14":"tag-solidarity"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116223954320616273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}