2-year-old Ivana received support from UNICEF after an attack. Thousands more children need your help now.
Lebanon’s children are living in constant fear
For children in Lebanon, nowhere is safe as attacks across the country intensify. Heavy bombings have turned homes, schools and neighbourhoods into places of terror.
Since the escalation of attacks across the Middle East on 2 March 2026, violence in Lebanon has surged to devastating new levels — and children are paying the highest price.
At least 83 children have been killed and 254 injured since the escalation began. In just 24 hours, over 60,000 people — including 18,000 children — were forced from their homes, exposing them to exploitation and harm. Over 300 shelters have been opened across the country, with dozens already at full capacity. Disease is spreading. Healthcare facilities are overwhelmed. Food is running out.
More than 1,300 children were already being treated for acute malnutrition before this latest crisis. Thousands more are now weak, hungry and at risk. Without urgent support, many will not get the care they desperately need.
Lebanon’s hospitals are overstretched. Essential medicines are scarce. Parents are being forced to make impossible choices between food and medicine, between safety and shelter.
On average, more than 10 children are being killed every single day. This is a catastrophe for the country’s 1.4 million children — already scarred by years of conflict, a cholera outbreak, and a crushing economic collapse.
Children urgently need your help. Your donation today could help provide emergency food, safe water, and medical supplies. Please give now. Help Lebanon’s children survive.
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Support for UNICEF is saving lives
UNICEF is on the ground now in Lebanon saving and protecting children. Last year alone, we helped over 600,000 people access primary health care and provided mental health support to 142,292 children, adolescents, and caregivers scarred by years of war.
But the latest crisis means more than 1.4 million children urgently need help. Your support today can help UNICEF provide:
Three million people with access to safe water and wastewater management systems.
Around 180,000 children and women with resilient primary health care after an outbreak of disease.
40,000 people in vulnerable households, particularly young people with disabilities, with emergency social assistance.
Please donate now and help us provide this essential support to Lebanon’s children.
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Three-year-old Sendus with her mother in their tented home at a refugee camp in the Bekaa.
How your donations help
Please help children before it’s too late. A gift from you right now can help save a child’s life. Donate what you can today.
- €50 could provide 5 children caught up in crisis situations with life-saving emergency food.
- €100 could provide 2 water and hygiene kits containing soap, gloves, masks, buckets and water purification tablets.
- €150 could supply a health centre with enough medicine to treat 24 children.
Please help children struggling to survive by donating now to UNICEF Ireland.
Donate nowOther Ways to Donate
You can make a donation by phone by calling 01 878 3000, from Monday to Friday between 9:00 – 5:30pm.
You can send your donation by post to Freepost; UNICEF Ireland, 33 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin D01 R283.
In the unlikely event that the funds raised exceed UNICEF’s funding requirements for this appeal, your donation will be directed to where the need is greatest.