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Lebanon Food Security Outlook Update: Ongoing insecurity isolating southern areas and eroding food access countrywide, April - September 2026

Format Analysis SourceFEWS NET Posted11 May 2026 Originally published10 May 2026 OriginView original

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Key Messages

Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes are expected across South and El-Nabatieh through September 2026, driven by sustained airstrikes, infrastructure destruction, collapsed market functionality, and severely constrained humanitarian access.

Only a fraction of shops remain operational and key transport infrastructure is destroyed, leaving supply chains severely disrupted and in-kind food assistance unable to reach increasingly isolated southern populations.

While cash assistance is expected to continue, households in the south are largely unable to use it to purchase food due to non-operational markets.

In Akkar, Baalbek-El Hermel, Beirut, and parts of Mount Lebanon, Bekaa, and North, Stressed! (IPC Phase 2!) outcomes are expected through May, with a deterioration to Crisis (IPC Phase 3) from June to September.

This deterioration reflects the compounding effects of large-scale displacement and reduced income-earning opportunities due to labor market disruptions amid a sharp decline in food assistance after May.

Outside of insecurity-affected areas, markets remain largely functional; however, food access is increasingly constrained by elevated food and fuel prices and substantially reduced purchasing power following the recent escalation of hostilities.

Income-earning opportunities remain below average countrywide, with tourism and seasonal agricultural labor no longer expected to provide meaningful relief during the summer months.

The combined effect of high prices and reduced income is expected to push a growing share of poor and displaced households to increasingly engage in coping mechanisms to meet basic needs.

Humanitarian food assistance remains a critical source of food for households in Lebanon. However, assistance is expected to decline sharply starting in June, with no confirmed funding for several key emergency programs beyond May. Amid persistent economic and livelihood constraints, reduced assistance will weaken households’ capacity to mitigate food gaps, particularly among Syrian refugees, displaced populations, and poor Lebanese.

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Minister of Agriculture of Lebanon: "The Israelis have stolen thousands of olive trees from us, they want to destroy a symbol of our culture"

05/06/2026 - 06:23 ET

Israeli soldiers drive a tank inside a village in southern Lebanon.AP

Ramzi Samha recalls how the price of citrus fruits doubled immediately on April 13. "The Israelis killed a group of 12 Syrians who were picking oranges. No Lebanese dared to go. Only the Syrians did because they were paid $70 a day [the average salary in Lebanon is around $300 per month]," he explains in front of his juice stand in the southern city of Tyre.

Since that date, Samha has been forced to travel to the town of Sidon, nearly 40 kilometers to the north, to buy lemons and pomegranates, which have disappeared from the few local markets that remain open.

The price escalation of citrus fruits in Tyre reflects the devastating statistics handled by the Lebanese Minister of Agriculture, Nizar Hani. Sitting in his office in Beirut, the Lebanese representative tries to summarize in numbers the immense crisis facing a country, Lebanon, where such hardships seem to be part of the local history and customs.

“The damage suffered by Lebanese agriculture is similar to that of a tsunami. 22.5% of crop lands have been damaged and cannot be used.

It's almost 54,000 hectares [out of a total of about 250,000]. We had estimated that the losses in the sector during the 2024 war were $800 million," the Lebanese representative indicates.

The cost of the late 2023 and 2024 war was estimated at around $14 billion and resulted in a negative GDP growth of 7.1%. The conflict that began in March - and continues, despite the theoretical ceasefire that came into effect on April 17 - has exacerbated the country's economic collapse, especially affecting its agricultural sector. The Institute of International Finance estimates that the GDP mentioned could plummet again this year by between 12 and 16%.

This regression has hit "an economy that was already severely weakened since 2019 [when the country suffered the collapse of its banking system and its GDP shrank by 25%]," as noted in the analysis by the publication Al Modon.

These figures are not just mathematical conjectures. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned days ago that the blow suffered by local agricultural production will result in a crisis of acute famine affecting at least 1.2 million people.

The critical situation in Lebanon is part of the long-term damage caused by the war initiated by Israel and the United States against Iran in March. The WFP estimates that the conflict threatens to put another 45 million people at imminent risk of acute famine and will push 30 million back into poverty - 4 million in the Middle East - even if it were to end right now.

In Lebanon, specialized NGOs like Action Against Hunger have warned that "families are forced to skip meals, reduce the quantity or quality of food, sell their belongings, or pull their children out of school in order to feed themselves."

In early April, the country was already experiencing a staggering increase in fuel costs. The price of a 20-liter can of gasoline - commonly used - had increased by 60%, while diesel had risen by 55%. The Central Administration of Statistics reported in mid-April that the accumulated inflation this year had soared to 17.26%.

The losses in the agricultural sector are not only focused on the destruction of lands, livestock, or infrastructure, but also on crop losses. "There are products that were concentrated in the south and have been literally decimated. For example, in the case of citrus fruits, that region accounted for 70% of the total national production. 90% in the case of bananas," states the Lebanese Minister of Agriculture.

The historic southern tobacco farms, a lifeline for nearly 16,000 families in that region, have been decimated, as around 85% - or more - of the growers have had to flee the area. "For example, the Israelis have destroyed 50,000 olive trees (olive oil production was another pillar of local agriculture).

They have stolen between 5,000 and 10,000, taking them directly to Israel to resell. These are centuries-old olive trees that can be worth thousands of euros. And it's not just about money. They are trying to destroy a symbol of our culture," says the aforementioned Nazir Hani.

"Agriculture kept the population in the southern villages. Without agriculture, the current exodus [there are over a million displaced people in a country with less than 6 million inhabitants] will become permanent, exacerbating sectarian tensions," he adds.

Qarim Phliphli, for example, went from comfortably managing his household economy in 2025 thanks to his pea plantation and small farm, where he had 350 cows and sheep, to becoming a displaced person who now relies on charity at a reception center in Antelias, north of Beirut. "I lost the entire pea harvest and a hundred cows and sheep," he asserts.

Desperate due to the situation, the 55-year-old Lebanese man does not hide his frustration. "The only solution is to leave the country. Can't you get me a visa for Spain? I want nothing more to do with Lebanon," he concludes.

Lebanon: Deepening food crisis driven by conflict escalation - IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis (April – August 2026)” (published 29 April 2026)

https://reliefweb.int/report/lebanon/lebanon-deepening-food-crisis-driven-conflict-escalation-ipc-acute-food-insecurity-analysis-april-august-2026-published-29-april-2026

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Analysis SourceIPC Posted29 Apr 2026 Originally published29 Apr 2026 OriginView original

Key results

The food security situation in Lebanon has worsened following the drastic escalation in hostilities and widespread displacement that began in early March 2026.

Around 1.24 million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April and August 2026, which is worse than was previously projected for this period in the IPC analysis released in October 2025.

The declining food security conditions are experienced among all population groups and reverses any improvements observed in the previous reporting period.

The biggest increases in populations in Phase 3 or above are found in the southern governorates, particularly in Bent Jbeil, Marjaayoun, El Nabatieh and Sour districts, among both Lebanese and Syrian refugee populations.

In these areas, high levels of acute food insecurity are affecting 55 to 65 percent of the population, including approximately 10 percent of people who are in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency).

The decline is primarily driven by renewed conflict and large-scale displacement, disruption to livelihoods and income opportunities, localised market disruption in conflict-affected areas, rising food and fuel prices, and an expected reduction in humanitarian food assistance coverage.

Beyond the direct impact of the escalation in Lebanon, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is expected to place further pressure on fuel and transport costs, import prices, remittance inflows, fertiliser and agricultural input costs, and overall market confidence, with spillover effects on household purchasing power and economic access to food across the country.

Recommendations & next steps

Lifesaving and HFSA: Sustained and adequately funded humanitarian food security assistance remains the most immediate priority to prevent a further deterioration in food security outcomes during the projection period. Particular attention should be given to the population groups and geographic areas facing the highest severity, especially conflict-affected southern districts, highly vulnerable hosting areas, Syrian refugees, Palestine refugees, and post-December 2024 arrivals from Syria.

Social protection and nationally led response mechanisms: Given the scale of deterioration among Lebanese households, continued support to social protection responses and nationally led mechanisms remains important. Efforts to sustain and strengthen existing systems, such as AMAN, and including those that can support rapid emergency response, such as the Shock Responsive Safety Nets (SRSN), should continue where feasible, in parallel with humanitarian assistance.

Market support and affordability monitoring: Continued monitoring of market functionality, food prices, fuel costs, bread prices, transport costs, and supply chain performance remains essential to guide response adjustments. In conflict-affected and hosting areas, interventions that help maintain market access and reduce affordability constraints should be prioritised wherever operationally feasible.

Agricultural support and recovery: Agricultural households in conflict-affected areas require urgent support to prevent further losses in production and income. Priority interventions should include access to seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, irrigation support, feed, veterinary inputs, and cash-based support for agricultural production where feasible.

Livelihood assistance: Protecting and restoring livelihoods is critical given the role of income loss, displacement, and rising living costs in driving the projected deterioration. Support should prioritise households dependent on informal labour, agriculture, daily wage work, retail, and service-sector activities, especially in conflict-affected and hosting areas.

Education and school feeding programs: Scaling up school feeding programs targeting displaced and host community children in priority districts, linking school feeding to local food production, and integrating nutrition and psychosocial services into education responses will help mitigate negative coping strategies such as child labour and school dropout.

Integrate nutrition sensitive activities: Embedding nutrition-sensitive interventions across food security and humanitarian efforts is necessary to improve dietary diversity and nutritional outcomes. This includes promoting community education, ensuring access to fortified foods, and strengthening collaboration between agriculture, health, and social protection systems.

How Israel’s war on Hezbollah in south Lebanon is devastating farmland, raising food security concerns

Updated 02 May 2026 01:55 NAJIA HOUSSARI May 01, 202622:28

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2642023/middle-east

BEIRUT: Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon have left vast stretches of farmland scorched and contaminated, according to Lebanese officials, raising concerns about long-term environmental damage, food security and the ability of displaced residents to return.

The demolition of towns and villages in the south, which began during the 2023 war, has intensified since renewed fighting between Hezbollah and Israel erupted in March.

Even as a fragile ceasefire holds, Israeli forces have pushed deeper into southern Lebanon, displacing residents from what Israel has dubbed the Yellow Line, a new security buffer zone.

The reported use of white phosphorus and spraying of concentrated glyphosate along the border have destroyed crops and degraded soil, with Lebanese officials warning that some land may no longer be viable for agriculture.

Minister of Agriculture Nizar Hani told Arab News that the destruction of land in southern Lebanon had reached “unprecedented levels,” estimating that 22.5 percent of farmland had been affected.

This far exceeds figures reported in Ukraine, where less than 10 percent of agricultural land has been damaged during the war with Russia.

According to the ministry’s third damage assessment, 78 percent of farmers in southern Lebanon have ceased activity due to displacement, while more than 10,000 farms have been damaged.

The impact has been on staple crops like wheat, vegetables, legumes and tobacco, as well as greenhouse production.

The soil in the south is fertile, with greater groundwater reserves and higher rainfall than other regions. The area was known for cultivating tobacco, olives, citrus fruits, grains and vegetables, which provided income, contributed to food self-sufficiency and supported year-round employment.

Hani told Arab News that the agricultural sector was “facing a severe crisis,” with the risk to food security increasing from 17 to 27 percent across the whole population.

Of the country’s 250,000 hectares of agricultural land, 54,000 hectares had been directly affected by the war, he said.

“This is an unprecedented scale with direct consequences for farmers, livelihoods and the broader economy.”

The conflict has damaged livestock facilities and irrigation networks, seen farmland bulldozed and vital bridges destroyed, such as those over the Litani River, cutting off farmers from their land and isolating produce from markets.

Official figures show a 49 percent decline in the number of beehives and a 39 percent drop in fish production, along with losses among cattle, sheep and poultry.

Israel’s establishment of a buffer zone in southern Lebanon is a military strategy intended to secure its northern border by removing Hezbollah militants and infrastructure from the immediate vicinity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described this as a “genuine security zone preventing any infiltration toward the Galilee and the northern border,” adding that the military was “expanding this zone to push the threat from anti-tank missiles further away.”

Defense Minister Israel Katz has outlined plans to maintain security control up to the Litani.

He said that once operations had been concluded, the military would govern the territory “while dismantling (Hezbollah) forces that have infiltrated and eliminating all weaponry in the area.”

Before the March offensive, some residents had managed to return briefly after the 2024 ceasefire to tend their plots, planting tobacco in the hope of a spring harvest. But when the war resumed the tobacco burned in the fields.

Tarek Mazraani, an architect from the border village of Houla and chair of a committee representing displaced residents, said the areas now under Israeli military control were among the most agriculturally significant in Lebanon.

Olive groves, citrus orchards, banana plantations and tobacco fields combined account for more than half of the country’s total farm output.

“What has been lost is not marginal land,” Mazraani told Arab News.

What remains of Lebanon’s citrus production lies further north, around Sidon and Sarafand, north of the Litani.

“But even there, agriculture has effectively ground to a halt. Farmers’ homes have become shelters for the displaced. The land sits untended,” Mazraani said.

The Ministry of Agriculture described the escalation in agricultural losses as severe. Its assessment, which does not include losses since March or those within the new Israeli buffer zone, found that more than 22.5 percent of the country’s agricultural land — almost 52,000 hectares — has been damaged.

Almost 2,400 hectares were recorded as being destroyed in a single week.

Hani said that about 1,600 hectares of land used for tobacco cultivation had been destroyed, with significant consequences for families, farmers and the broader economy, given the crop’s importance to local cigarette manufacturing and its high returns.

He also addressed the use of chemical substances, particularly white phosphorus, during the 2023 war in southern Lebanon.

“We collected hundreds of samples under extremely complex field conditions, examined them and found their impact to be significant,” he said.

“We were also investigating whether they sprayed substances containing heavy metals.”

Hani said Israel’s use of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, had been excessive during the current conflict.

They had “deliberately sprayed this substance at concentrations exceeding those typically used worldwide along a 17 km border strip,” in an attempt to damage Lebanon’s plant ecosystem, he said.

That approach mirrored practices seen in Gaza, with satellite images showing how treated areas formed a buffer zone as part of another Yellow Line within the enclave, he said.

“They are now adopting this method in Lebanon.”

Hani said that the chemical left behind harmful residues that could have long-term effects on forests, agriculture and vegetation, with contamination likely to persist in the soil.

According to Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research, the south has suffered extensive environmental damage, similar to that seen in Gaza. It said that the impact of the war was evident in the destruction of forests and agricultural land, which once served as hubs of biodiversity and natural carbon sinks, undermining livelihoods and food security.

Former Lebanese Minister of Agriculture Abbas Al-Hajj Hassan said that white phosphorus munitions used by Israeli forces burned about 40,000 mature olive trees in 2023.

The Legal Agenda, a Beirut-based nonprofit research and advocacy organization, has described the spraying of pesticides as a violation of Rule 76 of Customary International Humanitarian Law, which prohibits the use of herbicides as a method of warfare if they cause widespread, long-term damage to the environment.

The use of chemicals to clear vegetation in the border area is part of a broader Israeli security effort to eliminate cover for militants, improve visibility and reduce the risk of ambush. However, the strategy appears to have gone further than merely clearing vegetation.

The NCSR reported that during the first five weeks of the current war, the Israeli army completely or partially destroyed more than 50,400 homes across Lebanon. In Bint Jbeil alone, 9,540 units were destroyed, along with 9,909 in Tyre, 5,823 in Marjayoun and 9,972 in Nabatieh.

In a report published at the end of April last year, the Ministry of Environment documented damage to the country’s natural resources between 2023 and 2025. It said that Israeli military attacks had “reshaped the physical and environmental landscape” of southern Lebanon.

Minister of Environment Tamara Al-Zein said in the introduction that the scale and nature of the damage inflicted on forests, agricultural land, marine ecosystems, water resources and air quality “must be recognized as an act of ecocide, with repercussions extending beyond direct destruction.”

“The environmental damage we are facing is not merely an environmental issue but is also linked to public health, food security, livelihoods, the social fabric and the country’s resilience,” she said.

She accused Israel of committing “three simultaneous forms of destruction” — domicide, urbicide and ecocide.

She said that domicide was reflected in the large-scale destruction of housing, with more than 220,000 units damaged or destroyed, while urbicide was evident in the systematic targeting of southern border villages, including residential neighborhoods, infrastructure, places of worship and historical and archaeological sites.

Ecocide, she said, had caused widespread damage to forests, agricultural land, soil and water resources, with consequences that extended beyond the immediate destruction to affect public health, food security and livelihoods.

The Ministry of Environment’s findings align with the World Bank’s Lebanon Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, which estimates the total losses at $14 billion, comprising $6.8 billion in physical damage and $7.2 billion in economic losses.

Losses in the environmental sector and debris management reached $512 million, equivalent to 7.5 percent of total national losses, while overall recovery needs amounted to about $11 billion.

Al-Zein said that Lebanon’s right to hold Israel accountable for environmental damage was “non-negotiable,” regardless of political considerations or disagreements over the war.

Calling for support for recovery efforts was a national responsibility that required broad solidarity and strong international partnerships to address the high cost of remediation, she said.

Videos circulating on social media show Israeli soldiers harvesting vegetables from gardens in evacuated border villages, preparing meals inside homes and then demolishing them.

“It is painful and deeply humiliating,” Mazraani said, describing how residents had been displaced and prevented from returning.

“Soldiers broke in, ransacked what remained and desecrated land that families here have farmed for centuries,” he said.

He also pointed to a less visible form of loss, citing the disappearance or destruction of antiquities, documents and manuscripts left behind during the mass displacement.

Items such as books, documents, village archives and land ownership deeds had either been looted or destroyed, he said.

“I and others have thousands of books, old weapons, sculptures and records. This is another form of cultural erasure, following the destruction of villages and the severing of people’s connection to their land,” he said.

“It is an uprooting of history and geography.”

Credit IG @eastern_christians

“ A campaign involving AI-generated images targeting the Maronite Patriarch by Hezbollah supporters has sparked condemnation and outrage in Lebanon. Described by many as offensive and disturbing, the content drew strong reactions from the public and religious leaders”

“This is not the first time Maronite patriarchs have been targeted during periods of political tension in the country. The Maronite League affirmed that the Patriarchate remains a symbol of Lebanon’s sovereignty and unity, rejected the offense against religious figures, and called on judicial authorities to take the necessary measures.”

“The Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon also warned that freedom of expression must not be used for abuse or incitement, urging authorities to hold those responsible accountable.”

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Isolated, bombed, and cut off from health care in southern Lebanon



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Forty-six days of continuous attacks by Israeli forces haven a physical and mental toll on the residents of southern Lebanon. While most residents fled during the escalation, some stayed behind by choice or for lack of another option. Israeli airstrikes destroyed key bridges linking the south to the rest of the country, leaving them trapped and cut off under intense bombardment. Humanitarian workers withdrew as health care staff faced near-daily attacks and ongoing bombardment forced people to stay indoors.

Local health care providers have continued to work throughout the war, operating under immense pressure. MSF teams in south Lebanon, including in Sour and Nabatiyeh, provide primary health care, mental health support, sexual and reproductive health care, and referrals for secondary health care while supporting hospitals with trauma and emergency care. MSF continues to call for an urgent scale-up of humanitarian aid and unhindered access to aid for people in need across the country. #lebanon #news #doctorswithoutborders #lebanonnews

Everyone is heartbroken” in southern Lebanon

Forty-six days of continuous attacks by Israeli forces have taken a physical and mental toll on the residents of the south.

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/everyone-heartbroken-southern-lebanon

April 27, 2026

Traffic moves slowly toward the south of Lebanon as displaced residents make their way home. Many are headed to the coastal city of Sour/Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its scenery and historic significance. 

After 46 days of attacks by Israeli forces, the landscape of Sour is marred by the rubble of collapsed buildings and meters-deep craters left by the impact of bombs. Cars sit abandoned, punctured by shrapnel. 

While most of its residents fled during the escalation, some stayed behind by choice or for lack of another option. Israeli airstrikes destroyed key bridges linking the south to the rest of the country, leaving them trapped and cut off under intense bombardment. Humanitarian workers withdrew as health care staff faced near-daily attacks and ongoing bombardment forced people to stay indoors.

While the ceasefire — which has been extended for three weeks as of April 23 — has brought some sense of relief, it remains fragile under the buzz of Israeli drones overhead.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding to the needs of people in the south and across Lebanon, providing health care through mobile clinics and supporting hospitals. During the escalation, MSF teams provided more than 21,000 medical consultations and distributed relief items including over 32,000 blankets and 25,000 hygiene kits to support displaced people and others affected by the violence.

Isolated, bombed, and cut off from health care

Some of the people who stayed in the south did so because they had no other option — either due to the cost, a lack of shelter, the fear of losing their homes, or the sense of indignity associated with forced displacement.

Many families in and around Sour were already displaced before the latest escalation started. Some had come from towns near the southern border, where Israeli forces have made incursions into people’s homes.

Some patients stopped taking their medication because it wasn’t available. They also wanted to prioritize food and water. At the same time, they have no sense of security.

AIDA HASSOUNCH, MSF GENERAL DOCTOR

“We stayed here and didn’t leave, thank God,” said Hamad Darweesh, the secretary of the Jal El Bahr Palestinian community in Sour, where his family has lived since the since the Nakba, the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948. “For 46 days, we were trapped without basic necessities to survive. We had no medical care or anything.”

Cut off from health care

During the 46 days, Israeli strikes hit residential areas, health facilities, and ambulances — with or without warning. Access to health care diminished significantly as health facilities in the south had to close down and most international actors left the area due to the insecurity.

“Some patients stopped taking their medication because it wasn’t available,” says Aida Hassounch, MSF general doctor. “They also wanted to prioritize food and water. At the same time, they have no sense of security.”

Many residents have isolated themselves indoors, afraid any movements outside would put their lives in danger; others have separated family members to mitigate the risks.

Forcibly displaced by Israel's ground invasion

In addition to carrying out intense airstrikes on Lebanon, Israeli forces launched a ground invasion of the south, enforcing a “yellow line” or no-go zone where they have occupied part of Lebanese territory. This has prevented people from returning to their homes in some 55 villages. Further, thousands have been forcibly displaced by the destruction and demolition of entire villages and communities.

Why are our villages and homes being destroyed? Why is there a yellow, red, and blue line? ... It isn’t right to live like this.

SALHA SROUR, MSF PATIENT

“Everyone is heartbroken and sad for the state of their village, and so are we,” explains MSF patient Salha Srour. She is originally from the border town of Aita ash Shaab and has been displaced multiple times.

“We hear the sound of explosions," she adds. "Why are our villages and homes being destroyed? Why is there a yellow, red, and blue line? We used to eat what grew around our houses: lettuce, mint, and parsley, everything we used to plant. It isn’t right to live like this.”

Health workers continue to provide care

Local health care providers have continued to work throughout the war, operating under immense pressure. Among them are more than 500 of our Lebanese colleagues at MSF.

MSF teams in south Lebanon, including in Sour and Nabatiyeh, provide primary health care, mental health support, sexual and reproductive health care, and referrals for secondary health care while supporting hospitals with trauma and emergency care. MSF continues to call for an urgent scale-up of humanitarian aid and unhindered access to aid for people in need across the country.