Middle East – The crisis is reverberating throughout the region, and the United Nations is enhancing the scope of its emergency assistance

In this update (March 17):

🔹Fears of the worst disruption to humanitarian aid since the Covid-19 pandemic

🔹More than a million displaced people in Lebanon

🔹Israeli evacuation orders affect large areas of Lebanon and prompt repeated displacement

🔹Children are among the most affected, with worsening psychological trauma and loss of shelter

🔹Increasing displacement in the region, including Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Pakistan

🔹Enormous pressures on humanitarian systems with more than 24 million displaced people in the region

🔹Continuing internet outage in Iran

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