The Situation
Oxfam and partners are responding to the immediate needs of people who have been forcibly displaced by Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion of Lebanon, as the conflict across the region enters a dramatically new and dangerous phase.
There is grave concern about the scale and impact the conflict will have on tens of millions of people across the region, where almost 60 million already rely on humanitarian aid. The broader escalation in the region is triggering further mass forced displacement, placing additional strain on overstretched systems and pushing humanitarian conditions further towards catastrophe.
It will widen inequality gaps, intensify existing poverty and injustice, and limit the ability of humanitarian organizations to reach communities in need.
What is Oxfam Doing?
Oxfam is scaling up its emergency response by supporting thousands of people across shelters in Mount Lebanon, the South, and the Bekaa, providing bedding kits, hygiene kits, menstrual hygiene management kits, and clean water. Oxfam teams across the region are ready to pivot to evolving needs.
People reached so far
11,222
individuals across South Lebanon, North Lebanon, Beqaa, Beirut and Mount Lebanon
What we're delivering in shelters
- Bedding kits — pillows, blankets, mattresses
- Hygiene kits — family hygiene essentials
- Menstrual health management kits
- Bottled water
- Baby kits
- Water trucking, desludging & minor repairs
Oxfam staff in the Bekaa valley prepare for a distribution of hygiene kits, where people are sheltering across collective centres after being displaced from the escalating conflict.
What's inside a hygiene kit?
Shampoo, soap, toothpaste for adults, toilet paper, floor mop, laundry powder, sponge, dishwashing liquid, tissue paper, sanitary pads, children's toothpaste, detergent, and garbage bags.
Protection monitoring
Oxfam is also conducting protection monitoring assessments within shelters, especially to identify the needs of vulnerable groups and those discriminated against in official responses.