The humanitarian situation in Lebanon remains critical, with protection risks and significant gaps in essential services persisting. Since 2 March 2026, at least 4,257 people have been killed and 12,196 injured, according to MoPH figures as of 29 June. The latest sex- and age-disaggregated public data reports 390 women and 253 children killed, with 1,449 women and 1,036 children injured as of 28 June. Displacement remains fluid: as of 1 July, IOM DTM recorded 499,784 people still displaced and 646,107 returning IDPs, including large numbers of children, women, older persons, persons with disabilities, migrants, and other high-risk groups.

Following the 20 June ceasefire announcement, military activity has decreased compared with previous weeks, but the security environment remains highly fragile. Daily airstrikes, shelling, demolitions, and nationwide military drone activity continued to be reported, while humanitarian operations remain constrained by insecurity, shifting access conditions, and rapidly changing displacement and return patterns. The situation therefore does not yet provide safe, predictable, or sustained conditions for humanitarian delivery.

Return movements have increased, particularly in South and Nabatieh governorates, but remain limited by fragile security conditions, widespread housing and infrastructure damage, limited services, reduced livelihood opportunities, and UXO contamination. Some displaced families are relocating to collective sites closer to their areas of origin to conduct “go-and-see” visits, while many households continue to rely on host communities, rented accommodation, informal settlements, collective sites, and other temporary arrangements.

Displacement conditions, shelter closures, temporary accommodation, rising rental costs, financial strain, and limited privacy continue to heighten GBV, exploitation, harmful coping mechanism, trafficking, and psychosocial distress risks, particularly for women and girls, female-headed households, children, older persons, and persons with disabilities. As of 29 June, protection partners had reached 306,568 internally displaced and other affected people, more than 63% women and girls, including 104,855 people with psychosocial support, 2,270 individuals with case management, approximately 11,215 people with protection cash assistance, more than 35,154 women and girls with dignity kits, and 2,108 persons with disabilities with specialized support.

As of 1 July, 47,143 IDPs were residing in 430 active collective sites, while OCHA had reported 52,243 people in 479 collective shelters as of 29 June, reflecting the speed of shelter closures, reopening, consolidation, and population movement. Health system functionality remains severely affected: the Health Sector reports 211 attacks on healthcare since 2 March, causing 135 deaths and 406 injuries, with 3 hospitals closed, 35 PHCCs closed, and 17 hospitals damaged as of 29 June. Although no new attacks on healthcare were recorded through the SSA system since 22 June, this is not yet sufficient to indicate sustained improvement in the protection of healthcare or the broader operating environment.