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UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch told a Geneva briefing that fighting across multiple Yemeni front lines has driven more than 130,000 people from their homes since the start of September, with more expected to flee within Yemen and to Djibouti and Somalia. The agency has received $34 million of the $194 million it needs in Yemen this year.
The US virtual embassy in Iran told US citizens not to travel to Iran 'for any reason' and to leave, citing Houthi hostilities against Saudi Arabia including civilian airports and warning the conflict 'has the potential to escalate rapidly.' It followed wider US warnings to citizens across the region.
The UN Human Rights Office verified 55 civilian casualties in 19 incidents in Taiz, Hodeidah, Marib and Lahj since the start of September, including 16 people killed, 10 of them children, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, adding that the real toll was likely much higher and that access limits and funding shortfalls were hampering aid.
The World Bank projected Lebanon's real GDP will shrink 6.4 percent in 2026, 'reflecting the collapse in tourism, weaker consumption, disrupted supply chains, heightened insecurity, and prolonged displacement,' with inflation rising to 17.5 percent.
U.S. embassies in Amman, Jerusalem and Baghdad, and then the State Department region-wide, told Americans to 'consider departing, or be prepared to depart should there be escalation.' U.S. officials had told CNN that strikes on Iran were planned as soon as that weekend, after Trump said at a Cabinet meeting, 'We will be hitting them very hard.'
IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said about 6,000 seafarers remained stranded on hundreds of ships in the Gulf, condemned the attacks on ships crossing Hormuz over the previous two days as having placed them 'in grave danger', and urged flag states and owners to avoid the strait while crews' safety could not be assured.
Israel's Arabic-language military spokesperson ordered residents of Sarafand, Tefahta and Mazraat Sinay in the Saida district to leave ahead of strikes and move north of the Zahrani River.
Iranian state television said water service had been restored within 12 hours to Kouhestak and villages in the Bemani district after U.S. strikes on two reservoirs in Sirik on Wednesday cut drinking water to nearly 20,000 people.
Sirens sounded in Shlomi in northern Israel over a suspected drone from Lebanon, and the Israeli military said the drone was intercepted over southern Lebanon near its troops without crossing into Israel.
The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson told residents of Ghassaniyeh and Houmine al-Faouqa to move at least one kilometre away, and minutes later ordered Ansarieh evacuated north of the Zahrani River, citing Hezbollah ceasefire violations.
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Israel's Home Front Command issued a precautionary alert for northern communities over launches from Lebanon, and the military said air defences intercepted a Hezbollah rocket fired at troops in south Lebanon; the launch triggered an early warning in the Kiryat Shmona area but no sirens.
The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson ordered residents of Tyre, including the Christian quarter for the first time, and of surrounding areas and the Rashidieh, Burj Shemali and al-Bass camps to move north of the Zahrani River, citing Hezbollah activity in the quarter. Hundreds fled the Christian district, civil defence crews moved older residents, and the heads of Tyre's churches appealed to the international community and President Aoun to prevent an attack on the Christian district.
Israel said schools closed on June 8 because of Iranian missile fire would reopen on June 9 under updated Home Front Command guidelines, as both Israel and Iran lifted emergency restrictions imposed during the exchange; Iran reopened its airspace to civilian flights.
The International Organization for Migration said attacks on Iran had damaged 82,000 civilian buildings, including hospitals and residential units, and the homes of 180,000 people across 20 of the country's 32 provinces.
The Lebanese government said more than one million people, roughly a fifth of the population, had been driven from the south and Beirut's southern suburbs since fighting resumed on March 2. The Health Ministry put the death toll at 886, including 38 health workers.
UNHCR said preliminary assessments showed 600,000 to 1 million Iranian households, up to 3.2 million people, temporarily displaced inside Iran by the war, most of them from Tehran and other major cities toward the north or rural areas. It said the figure was likely to keep rising as hostilities persisted.
The UN refugee agency said more than 667,000 people had registered on Lebanon's displacement platform in a week, with the number rising by over 100,000 in a single day, and that Syria reported more than 78,000 Syrians crossing back from Lebanon. France called an emergency Security Council meeting on Lebanon for the next day.
The Israeli army ordered residents of Burj al-Barajneh, Hadath, Haret Hreik and Shiyah in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hezbollah's stronghold, to leave immediately, the first time it called on wide swaths of the capital to evacuate. Roads jammed as residents fled, two hospitals evacuated, and Lebanon's health ministry put the death toll since Monday at 123.
Israeli army Arabic spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee told residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate their homes immediately and head north of the Litani River, warning that movement southward could put their lives at risk. The order widened Tuesday's evacuation call for more than 80 communities.