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HIGHLIGHTS
- Continued insecurity and protection concerns in southern Lebanon: Military activity, including airstrikes, shelling, demolitions, and incursions, continued across South and Nabatieh governorates, affecting civilian safety, humanitarian access, and recovery efforts.
- Returns continue, but humanitarian needs remain acute: Displacement levels continued to decline gradually, with more than 823,000 people recorded as returned to their areas of origin. However, insecurity, damaged housing, disrupted services, explosive hazards, and limited livelihood opportunities continue to hinder sustainable return and prolong humanitarian needs among returnees, displaced populations, and host communities.
- Humanitarian response scales support amid funding and access challenges: Ongoing access constraints, infrastructure damage, and persistent funding shortfalls continue to challenge response operations and the restoration of essential services in conflict-affected areas.
- Humanitarian funding remains limited: As of 31 August, Flash Appeal received US$332.4 million (52 per cent) received against US$639.9 million. Humanitarian organizations warn that limited financial resources could undermine the continuity of critical assistance, including food support, healthcare, protection services, shelter assistance, coordination activities and recovery interventions.
- 2026 Flash Appeal concludes on 31 August 2026: From September to December the 2026 Lebanon Response Plan (LRP) Addendum will provide the framework for addressing additional humanitarian and stabilization needs arising from the escalation through the end of 2026.
SITUATION OVERVIEW
Humanitarian conditions in Lebanon remain fragile amid continued military activity, insecurity, displacement, and impediments to return. During the reporting period, Israeli military operations continued across South and Nabatieh governorates, including airstrikes, artillery fire, demolitions, incursions, and land-clearing activities affecting communities in Nabatieh, Marjaayoun, Bint Jbeil and Tyre districts. Airstrikes were reported in Mansouri and Tayr Harfa (Tyre District), while shelling affected Ainata and Beit Lif (Bint Jbeil District). Additional military activity and demolitions were reported in Mansouri, Majdal Zoun, Haddatha, Bani Hayyan, Houla, Baraachit, Khiam and surrounding areas, further affecting civilian safety, humanitarian access and recovery efforts.
Civilians and emergency responders continue to face significant protection risks. On 26 August, Israeli forces reportedly opened fire on a Lebanese Civil Defence team from Qlayaa (Marjaayoun District, Nabatieh Governorate) while it was responding to a fire near Deir Mimas after receiving authorization to access the area. Although no injuries were reported, the team was forced to withdraw. The incident followed a similar episode the previous evening, when shells reportedly landed near the same crew during follow-up firefighting activities. These incidents underscore the operational risks faced by first responders in conflict-affected areas. Reports during the period also pointed to extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure across southern Lebanon, including residential buildings, businesses, schools, hospitals, roads, electricity networks and water systems. On 24 August, a temporary school complex established by the municipality in Mais al-Jabal (Marjaayoun District, Nabatieh Governorate) was reportedly destroyed during demolition and bulldozing operations.
Security situation remained particularly unstable in parts of Nabatieh Governorate. Repeated strikes were reported around the Ali al-Taher heights, while military activity also affected Nabatieh, Kfar Rumman, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Arab Salim, Rashaf, Haris, Haddatha, Khiam and Mays al-Jabal. On 24 August, the Ministry of Public Health announced the recovery of the bodies of two men in the Doha-Kfar Rumman area who had previously been reported missing. On 27 August, an airstrike in Arab Salim reportedly killed one woman and injured six others, including a child and two older persons.
Explosive ordnance contamination continues to pose a serious threat to civilians. During the reporting period, a war-remnant explosion in Tayr Debba (Tyre District, South Governorate) reportedly injured one person. On 31 August, a child was reportedly killed and another injured after a suspected cluster-munition remnant detonated in Haboush (Nabatieh District). Such incidents highlight the ongoing danger posed by unexploded ordnance and explosive remnants of war in residential areas, agricultural land and public spaces. The presence of explosive hazards continues to limit mobility, impede access to livelihoods, and delay reconstruction and recovery activities.
As of 26 August, 334,353 people remained displaced across Lebanon, while 823,337 people had returned to their areas of origin. Although displacement continues to decline gradually, insecurity, damaged housing, degraded infrastructure, limited services, explosive contamination and livelihood constraints remain major obstacles to sustainable return. Humanitarian needs remain substantial among displaced populations, returnees and host communities, while humanitarian operations continue to face access constraints linked to insecurity, damaged infrastructure, telecommunications disruptions and explosive hazards.
Funding shortfalls continue to affect response capacity, with the 2026 Flash Appeal receiving US$332.4 million (52 per cent) of the US$639.9 million requested as of 31 August.