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More Than One Million in Lebanon Face Acute Food Shortages, UN Says

Elena MarquezPublished 3m ago2 min readBased on 1 source
More Than One Million in Lebanon Face Acute Food Shortages, UN Says
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More than one million people in Lebanon are facing acute food shortages, the United Nations said on November 11, 2026. The UN put the figure at nearly a quarter of the country's population, according to Al Jazeera, which reported the statement.

The number is expected to grow. In a joint statement, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and Lebanon's Ministry of Agriculture warned that the number of people facing acute food shortages is expected to rise to 1.15 million by mid-2027. The three bodies issued the warning together, bringing a UN agency and a national government ministry into a single assessment.

The scale of the country's recent hardship has also been put in financial terms. Lebanon's authorities estimate that the two wars between Israel and Hezbollah, an armed group based in Lebanon, since October 2023 have cost about $27 billion.

The UN numbers describe people who lack enough food, while the $27 billion estimate concerns the cost of the conflict.

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