‘Women and girls cannot wait’: Lebanon’s crisis is putting lives at risk

Key points

• Heightened tensions in Beirut and intensified attacks in southern Lebanon have pushed families into fear and uncertainty, forcing many to make impossible choices in search of safety.
• Healthcare centres struck Over the weekend, airstrikes damaged a UNFPA-supported primary healthcare centre and women and girls’ safe space in southern Lebanon, one of the few facilities still providing critical services in the area, the agency’s Representative in Lebanon Anandita Philipose told reporters in New York via video link from Cairo, Egypt.
• Tweet URL Another strike damaged a public hospital offering maternal healthcare.
• Among those displaced are an estimated 13,500 pregnant women, including 1,500 expected to give birth in the next 30 days.
• UNFPA warned that around 1,500 women remain trapped in southern Lebanon without reliable access to skilled care or safe delivery spaces.