where the mass looting of aid trucks by armed men worsened an already severe food crisis. Amos Hochstein, the Biden administration's pointman on Israel and Lebanon, arrived as Hezbollah's allies ...

shows that some 1.65 million people in Lebanon, including Syrian and Palestinian refugees, face crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity. That's up from 1.26 million before the escalation.

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developed by two U.N. agencies -- the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program -- and Lebanon's Ministry of Agriculture, shows that some 1.65 million people in Lebanon, including ...

with the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks by armed men worsening an already severe food crisis. Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden, arrived as Hezbollah’s allies in the ...

The deep economic crisis in Lebanon has exacerbated the situation of both Lebanese and refugees. Like all communities in Lebanon, refugees are deeply affected by the compounded crises and critical ...

Since then, prices have gone up on many food items, from meat to bread ... They say the current economic crisis is the worst threat to Lebanon's stability since the civil war that ravaged the ...

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Lebanon is also still in the throes of a crippling economic crisis, now in its sixth year, which has battered its banks, destroyed its state electricity sector and left many in poverty unable to ...

right, upon his arrival at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) ...

Aoun and the prime minister-designate have promised to work on getting Lebanon out of its economic crisis and to impose state authority over parts of the country long controlled by Hezbollah.