A UN-backed report said that more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon were expected to face acute hunger due to the latest war between Israel and Hezbollah, AFP reports.

The figure was announced in a joint statement by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Food Programme and Lebanon’s agriculture ministry.

Some “1.24 million people — nearly one in four of the population analysed — are expected to face food insecurity” at crisis levels or worse between April and August 2026, they said.